Language Of Speech And Writing

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 textbook is an addition to the Routledge Intertext series and offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on speech and writing. Written in a clear, user-friendly style, it combines practical activities with texts, accompanied by commentaries and suggestions for further study. Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, "The Language of Speech and Writing" analyzes the processes involved in writing and speaking; highlights the differences between these two modes of communication; explores written texts including legal documents and recipes and instruction manuals; explores spoken texts including telephone conversations, interviews and television programmes; and explores mixed-mode texts including email, advertisements and election publicity.
Review:
A clear and readable introduction, with modern, wide-ranging and thorough examples...Academically rigorous and thought-provoking.
- Margaret Walker, Chief Examiner for English Literature A Level
An excellent introduction, well organised, accessible and readable. The book covers the central issues in this important (and developing) subject area.
-Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan
Not only does this book offer a balanced and thorough account of the formal and functional differences between speech and writing, it does so in a way that makes it a lively and accessible introductory textbook for the beginning student of English language studies.
-Paul Simpson, Queen's University, Belfast