Roger Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 158195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Language and Control
Language in the News
Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of `hard facts`. In an incisive study of both the quality and the popular press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, a product of the social and political world on which it reports. Writing from the perspective of critical linguistics, Fowler examines the crucial role of language in mediating reality. Starting with a general account of …
Linguistic Criticism
Norman Fairclough, Critical discourse analyisis The critical study of languageLondonLongman, 1995 Pp XIII, 265
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Linguistic Criticism
A fruitful, well-established development in literary studies has been the application of ideas drawn from linguistics. Precise analytical methods help the practical criticism of texts, while at the same time the theory of language has illuminated literary theory. Linguistic Criticism is an introduction to the subject by one of its most experienced practitioners. Roger Fowler sets out clearly and simply a variety of analytical techniques whose app…
Studying literature as language
For the past twenty-five years or so, there has been a running dispute between literary critics and linguists on the question of whether it is appropriate to apply linguistic methods -that is to say, methods derived from the discipline of linguistics-to the study of literature. There has been almost universal confidence among the linguistis that this activity is entirely justified; and almost universal resistance by the critics, who have regarded…
The art of listening
A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
This dictionary, dealing with contemporary critical terms, has been extensively revised and up-dated
Literature as Social Discourse
Language as Ideology
How to see through language
Happy Auguries of the Decline of an Emergent Speciality
Commentary
Language and Control
Linguistics and the Novel
Preliminaries to a sociolinguistic theory of literary discourse
On Noam Chomsky
An Introduction to Transformational Syntax
A linguistic guide to English poetry
Against Idealization
On the interpretation of ‘nonsense strings’
Katz's statement of the core of the problem of ungrammaticalness is worth quoting at length: ‘The knowledge that enables a speaker to understand sentences – his knowledge of the rules of the grammar – must be identically the knowledge that enables him to understand semi-sentences, for semi-sentences are understood in terms of their well-formed parts. Moreover, the knowledge a speaker uses to recognize the respects in which a semi-sentence is ungr…
Structural Metrics
Linguistics, stylistics; criticism
A Note on Some Uses of the Term “Meaning” in Descriptive Linguistics
(1965). A Note on Some Uses of the Term “Meaning” in Descriptive Linguistics. WORD: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 411-420
Sentence and Clause in English
On the interpretation of ‘nonsense strings’
Katz's statement of the core of the problem of ungrammaticalness is worth quoting at length: ‘The knowledge that enables a speaker to understand sentences – his knowledge of the rules of the grammar – must be identically the knowledge that enables him to understand semi-sentences, for semi-sentences are understood in terms of their well-formed parts. Moreover, the knowledge a speaker uses to recognize the respects in which a semi-sentence is ungr…
How to see through language
Linguistics, stylistics; criticism
Preliminaries to a sociolinguistic theory of literary discourse
A linguistic guide to English poetry
Meaning’ and the theory of the morpheme
A Note on Some Uses of the Term “Meaning” in Descriptive Linguistics
(1965). A Note on Some Uses of the Term “Meaning” in Descriptive Linguistics. WORD: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 411-420
Sentence and Clause in English
Structural Metrics
Linguistics, stylistics; criticism
On the interpretation of ‘nonsense strings’
Katz's statement of the core of the problem of ungrammaticalness is worth quoting at length: ‘The knowledge that enables a speaker to understand sentences – his knowledge of the rules of the grammar – must be identically the knowledge that enables him to understand semi-sentences, for semi-sentences are understood in terms of their well-formed parts. Moreover, the knowledge a speaker uses to recognize the respects in which a semi-sentence is ungr…
Against Idealization
A linguistic guide to English poetry
An Introduction to Transformational Syntax
On Noam Chomsky
Linguistics and the Novel
Preliminaries to a sociolinguistic theory of literary discourse
Happy Auguries of the Decline of an Emergent Speciality
Commentary
Language and Control
Language as Ideology
How to see through language
Literature as Social Discourse
A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms
This dictionary, dealing with contemporary critical terms, has been extensively revised and up-dated
Studying literature as language
For the past twenty-five years or so, there has been a running dispute between literary critics and linguists on the question of whether it is appropriate to apply linguistic methods -that is to say, methods derived from the discipline of linguistics-to the study of literature. There has been almost universal confidence among the linguistis that this activity is entirely justified; and almost universal resistance by the critics, who have regarded…
The art of listening
Linguistic Criticism
A fruitful, well-established development in literary studies has been the application of ideas drawn from linguistics. Precise analytical methods help the practical criticism of texts, while at the same time the theory of language has illuminated literary theory. Linguistic Criticism is an introduction to the subject by one of its most experienced practitioners. Roger Fowler sets out clearly and simply a variety of analytical techniques whose app…
Norman Fairclough, Critical discourse analyisis The critical study of languageLondonLongman, 1995 Pp XIII, 265
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Linguistic Criticism
Language in the News
Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of `hard facts`. In an incisive study of both the quality and the popular press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, a product of the social and political world on which it reports. Writing from the perspective of critical linguistics, Fowler examines the crucial role of language in mediating reality. Starting with a general account of …
Philosophy (23 works) · Linguistics (22 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)