Böcker i Intertext-serien

This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of sport. It combines activities with texts, accompanied by commentaries and further activity suggestions.

"The Language of Comics" provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present and explores the 'semiotics of comics'.

This textbook offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on language and technology. Written in a clear style, it combines practical activities with texts, accompanied by commentaries and suggestions for further study.

Explores the relationship between language and our ideas about men and women. This title challenges commonly expressed views on the subject of language and gender. It highlights the individuals role in the expression of gender stereotyping. It includes a range of text types as diverse as personal ads and wildlife documentary.

Introduces students to the main principles of language analysis, through real text examples. This book features contemporary examples of English in use. It emphasises on theoretical principles that ensures evenness of level.

This book provides an extensive history of British television, exploring a range of genres, from breakfast news to soap operas and 'reality TV' and analysis TV scheduling and listings.

This volume introduces the key theories of language acquisition and provides a historical overview of the subject; looks at all the ways children learn to communicate, from writing and talking to playing and using computers; and includes a wide variety of real texts and data.

This book is unique in offering A-Level and undergradute students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on drama. It applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays.

Part of the "Intertext" series designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. This work: explores how military discourse has entered mainstream language use; focuses on how language is used to construct opposing sides during armed conflict; and more.

Exploring the use of scientific language in the news, and examining how scientific ideas are reported and communicated, this title takes a look at the use and misuse of scientific language and how it shapes our lives. It is useful for those interested in English Language, Linguistics, Journalism, Communications Studies or Science Communication.

Covers topical issues and examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry. This book outlines the linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.

Examines language use in business and the workplace, representations of work and how people in business interact. Includes many real-world examples and a section on entering the world of work.

Drawing on literary and linguistic theory for analysis of texts, this book covers all aspects of advertising language, from the interrelation of language, image and layout to the discourse between 'reader' and advertisement.

From the ideological bias of the press, to the role of headlines in newspaper articles and ways in which newspapers relate to their audience, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of newspaper language.

This textbook offers students practical experience of textual analysis focused on speech and writing. It combines practical activities with texts and analyzes the processes involved in writing and speaking as well as exploring written, spoken and mixed-mode texts.

This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on poetry. It combines activities with texts, commentaries and further activity suggestions.

This accessible satellite textbook is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on fiction. It combines activities, commentaries and suggestions for further reading.

Explores how websites use and present language, covers different types of web-based interaction and considers the structures of language online. Offers practical advice on how to build websites and includes a full glossary.

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext explores the nature of the electronic word and presents the new types of text in which it is found.

This accessible textbook in the Routledge "intertext" series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on conversation. Written in a clear, user-friendly style by an experienced teacher, it combines practical activities with texts and commentaries.

This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of humour. It combines practical activities with texts, commentaries and further activity suggestions.

This accessible textbook in the Intertext series is unique in offering student's practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of politics. It can be used individually or with the series core textbook.

'Language Change' examines the way external factors have influenced and are influencing language change, focusing on how changing social contexts are reflected in language use.