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  • Language and Control

    by Roger Fowler, Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress, Tony Trew ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociolinguistics
    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 manner entails ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Language in the News

    Discourse and Ideology in the Press

    by Roger Fowler ...
    Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of `hard facts`. In an incisive study of both the quality and the popular press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, a product of the social and political world on which it reports. Writing from the perspective of critical linguistics, Fowler examines the crucial role of language in ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • An Accidental Humanitarian

    Memoir of an aid worker in the Yugoslav Wars

    by 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 tragedies of what war could ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Old English Prose and Verse

    An Annotated Selection with Introductions and Notes by

    by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    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. By omitting texts of primarily philological and historical interest it ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Understanding Language

    An Introduction to Linguistics

    by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    It is widely recognized that language is humanity’s most distinctive and valuable faculty. 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 ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • The Languages of Literature

    Some Linguistic Contributions to Criticism

    by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
    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 appropriateness and ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Linguistics and Novel

    by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series New Accents
    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. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • An Introduction to Transformational Syntax

    by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    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 foundation for ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms

    Edited by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
    A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels.With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes:an exhaustive range of entries, covering ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966)

    Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style

    Edited by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and as part of this the rhythm and metre of English poetry is deconstructed. Language and its emotive structure is analysed, while the ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms

    Revised and Enlarged Edition

    Edited by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
    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 is an ideal basic ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Jimmy Bluesquirrel

    Truth and Consequence

    by Roger Wheeler, Dan Fowler ...
    Illustrated by Pamela Wheeler ...
    Through adventures with forest friends and predators, Jimmy BlueSquirrel has learned all about being scared, becoming brave and growing up. Now Jimmy must learn about the meaning of illusions and the power of truth, about livung with the heart-break of misrepresented truth and its harsh, life changing consequences. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD