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T HE R OUTLEDGE C OMPANION

TO E NGLISH L ANGUAGE S TUDIES

‘An indispensible resource for students and scholars. It offers both a

systematic overview of approaches to the analysis of language and its use

in specific social contexts and an in-depth exploration of the key debates

currently dominating English language studies’

Rodney Jones, City University of Hong Kong

‘This volume is extremely valuable for all those who are interested in what

the editors call the changing global role of English. The range and mix of

themes is most impressive’

Alan Scott Partington, Università di Bologna, Italy

The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies is an accessible guide to

the major topics, debates and issues in this rapidly expanding field. The first part

provides a comprehensive overview of the study of the English language and

the second part includes chapters on a wide range of topics, from globalisation

to sexuality to food packaging, contributed by well-known language specialists

from a wide range of backgrounds.

This volume provides critical overviews of:

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approaches to researching, describing and analysing English

•

the position of English as a global language

•

the use of English in texts, practices and discourses

•

variation and diversity throughout the English-speaking world.

The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies is fully cross-referenced

throughout with useful definitions of key terms and concepts, and also includes

helpful suggestions for further reading.

The volume will be of interest to those teaching English or wishing to check,

consolidate or update their knowledge, and is essential reading for all students

of English Language Studies.

Janet Maybin is a senior lecturer in Language and Communication at the Open

University. She is co-editor of Using English , also published by Routledge, and

The Art of English: Everyday Creativity with Joan Swann.

Joan Swann is a senior lecturer and director of the Centre for Language and

Communication at the Open University. She is co-author of A Dictionary of

Sociolinguistics and Introducing Sociolinguistics .

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T HE R OUTLEDGE C OMPANION

TO E NGLISH L ANGUAGE S TUDIES

Edited by

Janet Maybin and Joan Swann

First published 2010

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The routledge companion to English language

studies/edited by Janet Maybin and Joan Swann.

p. cm.— (Routledge companions)

1. English language—History. 2. English language—Study

and teaching. I. Maybin, Janet, 1950– II. Swann, Joan.

PE1075.R67 2009

420

.9—dc22 2008044854

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