Ronald Carter

Investigating English Discourse

Language, Literacy, Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780415140652
• ISBN-10: 041514065X
• Artikelnr.: 54544751

Autorenporträt

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham and was National Co-ordinator of the 'Language in the National Curriculum' Project (LINC) from 1989-1992. He has published extensively and is the editor of the Interface and co-editor of the Intertext series, both published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Language, Discourse and 'English'; Introduction1 Introduction to
Part I; Chapter 1 The text of this Chapter was first delivered as an
inaugural lecture at the University of Nottingham on 3 December 1992. Some
of the characteristics of the spoken discourse of its delivery have been
retained in this written version; the Chapter is also a modified version of
a paper published in English in Education, 27, 3 (1993).; Chapter 2 This
Chapter was first published in Carter, R. (ed.) Knowledge about Language
and the Curriculum: The LINC Reader (Hodder and Stoughton, Sevenoaks,
1990).; Chapter 3 This Chapter is a modified version of a paper of the same
title in Hasan, R. and Williams, G. (eds) literacy in Society(Longman,
1996). It was originally delivered as a plenary paper to the annual
conference of the Australian Applied Linguistics Association, Sydney, July
1992.; Chapter 4 This Chapter is an extensively revised version of a paper
entitled 'Standard Englishes in speech and writing' previously published in
Hayhoe, M. and Parker, S. (eds) Who Owns English? (Open University Press,
Milton Keynes, 1994).; Chapter 5 This Chapter has not previously been
published. It is based on a plenary paper delivered at a conference on
'Language and Knowledge' at the National University of Singapore in
September 1996.; postscripts1 Postscripts and Prospects; Part II
Literature, Discourse and 'English'; Introduction2 Introduction to Part II;
overview Overview: 'Lang' and 'Lit': Interpreting Discourse; Chapter 6 This
Chapter is a re-edited version of a paper with the same title in Steele, R.
and Threadgold, T. (eds) Language Topics: Essays Presented to Michael
Halliday, Vol. 2 ().; Chapter 7 This Chapter is a rewritten version of a
paper entitled 'Clines of metaphoricity and creative metaphors as situated
risk taking' first published in Journal of Literary Semantics, 17, 2
(1988). The original paper was co-written with Rukmini Bhaya and Michael
Toolan and I am grateful to my co-authors