This collection of essays developed out of a conference held in Hong Kong in 1988. The aim was to provide a forum for an exchange of views between academics wor

Despite a vast amount of study, literacy is still a very confused topic, which requires the integration of findings from different areas. Reading and writing ar

In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak not only grammatically but also appropriately. Although rules for appropriate language use m

This book is based on a close study of modern drama texts. In the first section – Dialogue – it studies specific drama texts. Drama has been neglected by li

The study of opacity falls under the general programme of showing how the meaning of any complex sentence is composed from the meanings of its constituent claus