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The Routledge companion to English language studies

Author: Janet Maybin; Joan Swann
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series: Routledge companions
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. Covering a wide range of topics such as globalisation, gender and sexuality and food packaging, it provides critical  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Janet Maybin; Joan Swann
ISBN: 9780415401739 0415401739 9780415403382 0415403383 9780203878958 0203878957
OCLC Number: 166360261
Description: xii, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Janet Maybin and Joan Swann --
Describing English / Caroline Coffin and Kieran O'Halloran --
Texts and practices / Ann Hewings and Sarah North --
From variation to hybridity / Rajend Mesthrie and Joan Swann --
English and globalization / Alastair Pennycook --
English and creativity / Rob Pope --
'Hearts and minds' : persuasive language in ancient and modern public debate / Guy Cook --
Computer-mediated English / Brenda Danet --
English language teaching in the outer and expanding circles / Suresh Canagarajah and Selim Ben Said --
English at school in England / Richard Andrews --
Institutional discourse / Celia Roberts --
Using English in the legal process / Diana Eades --
Language, gender and sexuality / Deborah Cameron --
Perspectives on children learning English : from structures to practices / Barbara Mayor --
Academic literacies : new directions in theory and practice / Brian Street --
Spelling as a social practice / Mark Sebba --
Multilingual discourses on wheels and public English in Africa : a case for 'vague linguistique' / Sinfree Makoni and Busi Makoni --
Domesticating the other : English and translation / Susan Bassnett.
Series Title: Routledge companions
Responsibility: edited by Janet Maybin and Joan Swann.

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