An edition of Other floors, other voices (1998)

Other floors, other voices

a textography of a small university building

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An edition of Other floors, other voices (1998)

Other floors, other voices

a textography of a small university building

John Swales' textography might also be called "comparative rhetoric in a small building," offering proof, once again, that another culture may be only a trip up or down a flight of stairs.

On its three floors, Swales finds modes of text-building as distinctive and exotic as field-workers find in remote valleys and isolated islands: one floor languaging about frozen Unix stations; the next creating, partly in Latin, the Flora Novo-Galiciana; and the third offering a range of genres that attempt to variously negotiate the "theory-practice" requirements of English as a second language.

Each community is closely observed and described in almost sensuous detail, so that we not only gain real insight into the way the writing is done on the three floors, but also feel the adventure of it and, best of all, learn to hear the individual voices in each community.

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Language
English
Pages
230

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and indexes.

Published in
Mahway, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
420/.1/41
Library of Congress
PE1422 .S93 1998, PE1422.S93 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 230 p. :
Number of pages
230

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL352984M
Internet Archive
otherfloorsother0000swal
ISBN 10
0805820876, 0805820884
LCCN
98012631
OCLC/WorldCat
38468539
Library Thing
1313069
Goodreads
3771579
1317740

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