Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts

First published in 1984, in Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts, the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers in all walks of life to demonstrate that when we communicate there is a powerful unspoken linguistic consensus as to what is ‘relevant’ to our purpose in writing a particular text for a particular audience. His aim is to make us aware of how the nature of information offered is compatible with the completeness of very small to very large texts.

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