Product Description: Witnessing a woman go through divorce is like watching a tornado tear up a trailer park. Not only is someone losing their home and life as they know it, but for most women, it seems to go down with some extra drama thrown in the mix...read more

Product Description: In Literature About Language Valerie Shepherd brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism and examines languages as a theme in a range of literary texts. By looking at the work of writers such as Swift, Joyce and Sontag she discusses the power of story-telling and metaphor to shape our thinking and examines the communicative capacities of non-standard English and the strengths of women's writing in a male language world...read more

Product Description: The debate about the respective merits of standard and non-standard English has intensified in recent years. This book argues that regional dialects and language variations are not inferior to standard English and, indeed, have a richness and appropriateness of their own...read more

Product Description: These language games relate linguistic analysis to language behaviour, enable pupils to make explicit their implicit understanding of language, and facilitate students' use of language in the real world. They are aimed at 13-18 year olds but may be adapted for both younger and older students...read more