Sarah Williams

Paola Trimarco

Kevin Hood

Jane Austen is one of the world's most famous writers. Who has not heard about the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice? We do not know much abaout Jane's romantic life. But we know about the problems of girls like Jane, in the late 1700's, who fell in love with the wrong man.

Becoming Jane

From topics such as digital literacy and online communities, to questions surrounding identity and hybridity, Digital Textuality is an essential guide for anybody who wants to understand how the English language is being used in new media technologies. Covering a range of genres such as collaborative and hypertext fiction, social media and news sites, this is required reading for students of language and linguistics, media and cultural studies. Digital Textuality includes: • Numerous examples drawn from real-life texts that reflect this exciting and fast-evolving field • Easy-to-understand linguistic approaches that reflect the very latest in language-based research • Additional readings in every chapter, with activities and sample projects to give the reader ideas for further reflection and study

Digital Textuality

John Steinbeck

When the Joads lose their farm in the Oklaholma dust-bowl, they join the thousands of people travelling towards the golden promise of California. Instead they meet hostility, humiliation and poverty. Steinbeck's portrait of the horrors of the Depression is a landmark of American literature and won the Pulitzer Prize.

The Grapes of Wrath

Joan Swann

David Peplow

Sara Whiteley

Of interest in their own terms as a significant cultural practice, reading groups also provide a window on the everyday interpretation of literary texts. While reading is often considered a solitary process, reading groups constitute a form of social reading, where interpretations are produced and displayed in discourse. The Discourse of Reading Groups is a study of such joint conceptual activity, and how this is necessarily embedded in interpersonal activity and the production of reader identities. Uniquely in this context it draws on, and seeks to integrate, ideas from both cognitive and social linguistics. The book will be of interest to scholars in literacy studies as well as cultural and literary studies, the history of reading, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, digital technologies and educational research.

Paola Trimarco

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