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A clear and readable introduction, with modern, wide-ranging and thorough examples...Academically rigorous and thought-provoking. <br>- Margaret Walker, Chief Examiner for English Literature A Level <br> An excellent introduction, well organised, accessible and readable. The book covers the central issues in this important (and developing) subject area. <br>-Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan <br> Not only does this book offer a balanced and thorough account of the formal and functional differences between speech and writing, it does so in a way that makes it a lively and accessible introductory textbook for the beginning student of English language studies. <br>-Paul Simpson, Queen's University, Belfast <br>

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Sandra Cornbleet is a part-time Lecturer at Nottingham University and Examiner for various English Language examination boards. Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at Nottingham University and author of numerous books in the area of applied linguistics. He is also involved in developing the CANCODE project, which is a corpus of five million words of spoken English transcribed and stored computationally.

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