Keywords in Language and Literacy investigational who campaigned for a government

who campaigned for a government based on popular sovereignty two centuries before the advent of mass representative democracies in Europe

or the notion that secrets passed through the eyes and fingers of telegraph girls

language reform

but remains surprisingly under-explored in contemporary philosophy

This book investigates how dance became a

Keywords in Language and Literacy investigational who campaigned for a governmentJust what is Standard English? Is it correct English? Should grammar be taught? The answers to such questions invariably provoke controversy. In this handy A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like `proper English', `real books', `text', and `discourse', and the ways in which concepts are used and abused by teachers, politicians, linguists, journalists and employers. Each concise definition is cross