Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice

Starting from the point of view that language is essentially a social phenomenon, this book explores the interconnectedness of linguistic and social matters in a wide vareity of texts ranging from casual conversations to extracts from coursebooks. Kress demonstrates that, rather than being powerless in the face of a monolithic language system, the individual language user is constantly engaged in the processes of linguistic reconstitution and change.Kress, Gunther is the author of 'Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice', published 1989 under ISBN 9780194371568 and ISBN 0194371565.