The second edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the
Combines the heated debates between post-structuralist critics and defenders of democracy to create a new theoryAre we living in post-democratic times - has democracy turned into an empty institutiona
Combines the heated debates between post-structuralist critics and defenders of democracy to create a new theoryAre we living in post-democratic times - has democracy turned into an empty institutiona
A central goal of pragmatics is to identify the capabilities that underpin our ability to communicate 'non-literal' meanings. Guiding students through the many facets of English pragmatics, this textb
Providing a clear and accessible introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, the second edition of this bestselling textbook outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language
The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateauscan be daunting. What is an assemblage? What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? What is be
What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different
Epitomised by political, social and technological change, this narrative looks back over the century since the outbreak of World War I up to the 21st century politics of devolution and the age of the
