Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice

by Gunther Kress

Starting from the point of view that language is essentially a social phenomenon, this book explores the interconnectedness of linguistic and social matters in a wide vareity of texts ranging from casual conversations to extracts from coursebooks. Kress demonstrates that, rather than being powerless in the face of a monolithic language system, the individual language user is constantly engaged in the processes of linguistic reconstitution and change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0194371565
• ISBN13: 9780194371568
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"