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Language and Social Contexts: explores how social contexts affect language use, enabling students to see how context has a direct effect on how texts are written, read and understood. Key Features: covers the key skills and topics, including the importance of social contexts, transcripts and live data, representation, power, gender and regional dialect analyses a wide variety of spoken and written texts, from conversations and text messages to wedding invitations, road signs, police warnings and advertisements offers a step-by-step guide to approaching texts and data and suggestions for structuring a response can be used as both a course text and a revision tool.

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'I would recommend the text highly as being practical as well as thoughtful, clearly produced by someone who knows exactly what it is like to be a classroom practitioner.' - Jan Ingram, Cardinal Wiseman School, Middlesex

'For teachers of English language [this book] is a must ... It is a very reassuring text and the activities work well.' - EnglishDramaMedia

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Amanda Coultas is Head of English at Prudhoe High School, Northumberland. She is a Principal Examiner for English Language A Level and a senior examiner for English Literature A Level.

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