This text examines language and information technology, focusing attention on the use of the computer at work, as a phone message service, as a communication site, as a text processor and as a knowledge broker.
Using a range of evidence Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men'..
Using a range of evidence Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men'..
Childly Language explores how cultural assumptions about children and childhood are expressed in contemporary English - drawing on a wide range of sou..
Sociolinguistics and Social Theory brings together new critical overviews of the interface between language, social structure and social action. A wid..