Seeing Through Language / A Guide to Styles of English Writing  -  Carter, Ronald

a guide to styles of English writing

KORTE INHOUD

Riddle: Why is a telescope like a bad excuse? Answer: Because anyone can see through it.

The authors of this book would like to help anyone - but particularly students of English - to "see through" language, whether as the instrument of perception or as the evasive code. They write about texts, and the making of texts, and how texts are made to carry various kinds of meaning; and the topics they choose to write about range from the lexicon of car maintenance manuals to the role of grammatical modality in lit...
1990 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1990 Uitgever: Basil Blackwell 267 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0631151354 ISBN-13: 9780631151357