Using English from Conversation to CanonJanet Maybin, Neil Mercer In this book, writers from a range of academic disciplines examine a wide variety of text and discourse: from everyday conversation to the literary canon. |
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... Britain 64 Mukul Saxena Reading B Changing literacy practices in a South African informal settlement 67 Catherine Kell Reading C Computer - mediated English : sociolinguistic aspects of computer - mediated communication 76 Simeon Yates ...
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Contents
Book editors and contributors | 1 |
6 | 27 |
interpretative repertoires | 36 |
Literacy practices in English | 42 |
an ethnographic | 64 |
sociolinguistic aspects | 76 |
4 | 107 |
Rhetoric in English | 122 |
What makes English into art? | 162 |
Reading A In the vernacular | 185 |
performance language as art form | 191 |
Language play in English | 198 |
graffiti | 230 |
notes on nation language | 266 |
Reading B Hegemony and literary tradition in the United States | 272 |
Extract from Finding the Centre | 303 |
Appendix Transcription symbols | 143 |
Indian traditions | 150 |
a media speech genre | 156 |
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Acknowledgements | 319 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Achebe Activity advertisements African American applause audience Brathwaite Britain British called canon Caribbean chapter Chinua Achebe client communication compliments context conversation criticism cultural described discourse discussed effect English language English literature Eva Hoffman everyday example experience expressed extract Figure genres graffiti grammatical Hindi Indian instance interaction interview Jamaican Creole Kannada Kanthapura Kautiliya kind language play letter linguistic literacy practices literary look Maxine Hong Kingston meaning Naipaul narrative nation language Neil Mercer Ngũgĩ novel oral Panjabi particular patterns performance phrases poem poetry political puns reader Reading relationship Remember my horse repertoire rhetorical Riddley Walker Seamus Heaney Singapore Singlish social song speakers speaking speech spoken story structure style suggests T.S. Eliot tabloid talk televangelical things three-part lists traditional transcription University V.S. Naipaul voice women words writing in English Xhosa Zandile
References to this book
English for Primary and Early Years: Developing Subject Knowledge Ian Eyres No preview available - 2007 |