David Atkinson explores the healing ministry and the miracles of Jesus and their relevance to Christian ministry today. He asks whether suffering can ever be creative and explores how today's conversa
A specialist in ballads, Atkinson tries to make some sense of the unity in diversity exhibited by the folk ballads of the English-speaking world. Like all scholars of the genre, he takes Childe's monu
An accessible overview of five major issues in sociolinguistics and the relationship between language and power.This book analyzes the key ways in which language constitutes and conveys power and soci
