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Literature about Language

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ISBN-10: 0415069963

ISBN-13: 9780415069960

Edition: 1993

Authors: Valerie Shepherd

List price: $135.00
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In Literature About Language Valerie Shepherd introduces students to linguistic theory by looking at language as a theme in a variety of texts. Her emphasis is on what the texts themselves say about language. Bringing together linguistic theory and literary criticism she also looks at the ability of language to shape our perceptions, as well as the ways in which the power of language is constrained by its users and by social and cultural pressures.
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Book details

List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/22/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Series editor's introduction to the Interface series
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Literature about language
The human capacity for language
The Inheritors by William Golding
Linguistic creativity and limitation
'my sweet old etcetera' by e. e. cummings
Sound and meaning
'The upper birch-leaves' by Thomas Hardy
Making meaning
Susan Sontag's essay 'AIDS and its metaphors' and Eva Salzman's poem 'Time out'
The narrative art of language
Poetry by Elizabeth Jennings and the short story 'Eveline' from James Joyce's Dubliners
Standard and Non-standard English
The Dorset poetry of William Barnes, with reference to Tennyson's Lincolnshire monologues and Tom Leonard's Glasgow poems
The language of women and men
'Nervous prostration' by Anna Wickham with particular reference to Jonathan Swift's 'The furniture of a woman's mind'
The power of discourse
David Lodge's novel Nice Work and poetry by Tom Leonard
The signalling of meaning
'Something for the time being' by Nadine Gordimer
Notes
References
Index
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