A textbook of language study for trainee teachers.

Norman Blake, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Sheffield University, is known throughout the world to scholars of mediaeval English Literature.

This ground-breaking text spans a range of issues central to school English. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to o

This book is intended primarily for undergraduate students of English, though it will also be useful for undergraduates in linguistics focusing on English. It s