LIBROS DEL AUTOR: roger fowler

14 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: roger fowler

  • An Accidental Humanitarian
    Roger John Fowler
    Hearing that the British Red Cross were recruiting truck drivers to deliver relief supplies in the active conflict zones of the former Yugoslavia, Roger thought the work sounded interesting. What he experienced during his mission with the International Committee of the Red Cross proved to be much more. Living the realities of humanitarian relief work and witnessing the tragedie...
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    21,31 €

  • Old English Prose and Verse
    Roger Fowler
    Originally published in 1966, this book provides students of the earliest stage of our literature with a selection of texts for a complete introductory course. All the principal poems and prose works in this literature are represented, including more generous extracts from Beowulf than are common in anthologies of this type. ...
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    213,94 €

  • Understanding Language
    Roger Fowler
    In this work, originally published in 1974, Roger Fowler explains the character and absorbing interest of language. Designed as an introductory text for students and others concerned with human communication, the book is clearly and concisely written, yet it in no way oversimplifies its rich and complicated subject. ...
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    213,72 €

  • Language and Control
    Bob Hodge / Gunther Kress / Roger Fowler
    Originally published in 1979. This book studies language variation as a part of social practice - how language expresses and helps regulate social relationships of all kinds. Different groups, classes, institutions and situations have their special modes of language and these varieties are not just stylistic reflections of social differences; speaking or writing in a certain ma...
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    65,21 €

  • Language and Control
    Bob Hodge / Gunther Kress / Roger Fowler
    Originally published in 1979. This book studies how language expresses and helps regulate all social relationships. It argues for a critical linguistics capable of exposing distortion and mystification in language, and introduces some basic tools for a do-it-yourself analysis of language, ideology and control. ...
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    220,77 €

  • An Introduction to Transformational Syntax
    Roger Fowler
    Transformational syntax is an analytic technique of grammatical description which has exciting psychological and philosophical ramifications inspiring creative research into the conceptual powers and behaviour of man. In this book, first published in 1971, the author suggests that the techniques of the classical period (1964-66) of transformational syntax provide the securest f...
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    73,52 €

  • A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
    Roger Fowler
    This book, first published in 1987, differs from many other ’dictionaries of criticism’ in concentrating less on time-honoured rhetorical terms and more on conceptually flexible, powerful terms. Each entry consists of not simply a dictionary definition but an essay exploring the history and full significance of the term, and its possibilities in critical discourse. This title i...
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    79,89 €

  • A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
    Roger Fowler
    This book concentrates on conceptually flexible, powerful terms. Each entry consists of a dictionary definition and an essay exploring the history and full significance of the term, and its possibilities in critical discourse. This title is an ideal basic reference text for literature students of all levels. ...
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    267,91 €

  • The Languages of Literature
    Roger Fowler
    In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature, and, read as a whole, the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of language in literature with language outside literature, on its cultural appropr...
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    267,91 €

  • Language in the News
    Roger Fowler
    Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of `hard facts`. In a study of the British press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, constructed by the social and political world. ...
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    267,95 €

  • Introduction to the Library and Information Professions
    Robert Grover / Roger Greer / Susan Fowler
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    91,62 €

  • Linguistics and Novel
    Roger Fowler
    We are living in a time of rapid radical social change. In New Accents each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. This volume explores new approaches in the criticism of fiction. ...
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    95,30 €

  • The Language of George Orwell
    Roger Fowler
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    66,71 €

  • Language in the News
    Roger Fowler
    Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of `hard facts`. In a study of the British press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, constructed by the social and political world. ...
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    88,05 €