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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Series Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Variation and Change in English | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language, dialect, accent and variety | |
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| Language | |
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| The Ebonics debate | |
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| Dialect, accent and variety | |
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| Standards of English | |
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| What is standard English? | |
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| A brief history of the standardisation of English in England | |
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| A brief history of the standardisation of English in the United States | |
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| Studies in variation and change | |
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| Linguistic variation | |
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| Social variation | |
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| Variation and social networks | |
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| Studying variation in English | |
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| Selecting a topic for research | |
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| Project design and sampling | |
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| Methods of data collection | |
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| Sound and video recording equipment | |
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| Transcribing data | |
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| Analysing data | |
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| Writing your report | |
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| Sample projects | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Pragmatics and Discourse | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language, meaning and communication | |
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| Language in context | |
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| Language as action | |
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| Speech act theory | |
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| The cooperative principle | |
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| Discourse analysis | |
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| The structure of talk | |
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| Conversation analysis | |
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| Turn-taking | |
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| Adjacency pairs | |
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| Presupposition | |
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| Politeness | |
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| Context | |
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| Language, action and interaction | |
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| Grammar and interaction | |
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| Studying speech | |
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| Selecting a topic for research | |
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| Choosing and collecting data | |
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| Conventions of transcription | |
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| Analysing data | |
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| Sample projects | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Stylistics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is stylistics? | |
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| Units of language and grammar | |
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| Stylistic methods and categories of analysis | |
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| Cohesion | |
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| Deixis and fictional worlds | |
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| Similes and metaphors | |
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| Narrative | |
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| Representing speech and thought | |
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| Dialogue in drama | |
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| Studying stylistics | |
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| Selecting a topic for study | |
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| Choosing and collecting data | |
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| Analysing data | |
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| Sample projects | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Critical Discourse Analysis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language, society and ideology | |
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| Language, linguistics and ideology | |
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| Words and meaning | |
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| Language and reality | |
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| Language as discourse | |
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| Critical linguistics | |
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| Transitivity | |
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| Modality | |
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| A framework for critical discourse analysis | |
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| Schema theory and members' resources | |
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| CDA, written discourse analysis and stylistics | |
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| Studying CDA | |
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| Selecting a topic for study | |
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| Choosing and collecting data | |
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| Analysing data | |
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| Sample projects | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |