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English Text: System and Structure

English Text: System and Structure

J. R. Martin - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 620 pages
Estudio sobre las fuentes del discurso en la lingüística inglesa, el sistema y la estructura del texto, a través de análisis prácticos aplicados a tres puntos: lingüística ...
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Social Semiotics

Social Semiotics

Robert Ian Vere Hodge, Gunther R. Kress - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 285 pages
Semiotics was defined by Ferdinand de Saussure as "the science of the life of signs in society." Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress here confront the conceptual difficulties that ...
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Cohesion in English
Spoken and written language

Spoken and written language

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday - Foreign Language Study - 1989 - 109 pages
This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an account of writing ...
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes

Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes

L. Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ - Psychology - 1978 - 159 pages
The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never ...
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Language as a Local Practice

Language as a Local Practice

Alastair Pennycook - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 168 pages
Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an ...
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Language and Power
Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

Glenn Dixon - Travel - 2009 - 352 pages
Pilgrim in the Palace of Words is about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. Some six thousand languages are still spoken on the planet, and ...
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Using Functional Grammar
Language, context, and text: aspects of language in a social-semiotic ...