Book of Donmon Teith

This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an ac

This multidisciplinary volume offers insights on oral and written language development and how it takes place in literate societies. The volume covers topics fr

Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying th

Sociophilology is a word coined by the author to describe a discipline which combines traditional rigorous philological analysis of texts with the recent insigh