Keywords in Language and Literacy investigational This book will appeal to

This book will appeal to graduate students of syntax and semantics in departments of linguistics

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Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field

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Keywords in Language and Literacy investigational This book will appeal toJust what is Standard English? Is it correct English? Should grammar be taught? The answers to such questions invariably provoke controversy. In this handy A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like `proper English', `real books', `text', and `discourse', and the ways in which concepts are used and abused by teachers, politicians, linguists, journalists and employers. Each concise definition is cross