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New book published - English Language: Description, Variation and Context
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Members of the Linguistics department (J. Culpeper, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak, F. Katamba and T. McEnery) have produced the huge (718 pages!) textbook, English Language: Description, Variation and Context (2009; Palgrave). It contains 39 chapters, covering structural, sociolinguistic, functional, interactional, contextual, etc. aspects of the English language. A distinctive feature of the book is that all contributors and editors are (or in two cases were) based here in Lancaster.
For full details of the book see http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=270269