Books in the Interface series

By applying recent trends in literary and linguistic theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors make new theoretical insights accessible to student readers. An essential introduction to the subject.

This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literary cri ticism, language studies, linguistics and English studies.

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

This introductory text examines literary history from the Renaissance to postmodernism. It provides close readings of individual books, treating them as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their linguistic and cultural contexts.

Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles, asides, and the extent to which they can be universal and specific to one culture.

An introduction to the English language through the medium of English literature. Through the use of examples from poetry, prose and drama, this work offers a guide to the concepts and techniques in English language study.

This work offers students on literary and cultural studies courses an interactive strategy for textual intervention. It draws on a combination of discourse analysis, performance techniques, critical theory and creative writing, and engages with cultural debates about production and reproduction.

Uses language study and linguistic theory to set the rationale for feminist text analysis. The book examines sexism, political correctness, reader positioning, narrative, agency, discourse, character and role analysis. It examines literary texts alongside newspapers, pop songs and advertisements.

This introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which speakers and writers linguistically encode their beliefs, interests and biases in a wide range of media.

Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. He examines a wide variety of written genres and provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory. He also proposes a challenging new way of analyzing genre which emphasizes communicative function.

This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience, aims to make new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analyzing and evaluating literary texts.

This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience, aims to make new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analyzing and evaluating literary texts.

Explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed.

This edited collection introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors employ a variety of of language analysis techniques.

A combination of workbook and handbook. Instead of just outlining the discipline of literary studies it helps the student to answer questions about its history and current practice, containing examples from the last 1000 years of writing in English.

Investigates the use of language in literary and non-literary texts using the principles of linguistic analysis. This work shows how linguistic knowledge can enhance and enrich the analysis of texts. Borrowing from stylistics, it focuses on recurring linguistic patterns used by writers.