Rather than giving the student a list of facts to assimilate this book offers a selection of standard and non-standard pieces of spoken and written English that

Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unifi

This book provides an overview of the differences between spoken and written English. It is a genuinely interactive task based text.

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on

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