English in Speech and Writing: Investigating Language and Literature

In this activity-based text, Rebecca Hughes invites the reader to examine the differences between spoken and written English.

Instead of presenting a bewildering array of 'facts' about variety in English, she encourages the reader to actively investigate the differences between these two modes of communication by comparing actual speech patterns with literary ones. This indispensable guide to the basic methods of analysis provides both an overview of the relationship between speech and writi...