Language and Control in Children's Literature by Murray Knowles

Language and Control in Children's Literature by Murray Knowles

This study examines the work of children's writers from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to expose the persuasive power of language. Looking at the work of 19th century English writers of juvenile fiction, Knowles and Malmkjaer expose the colonial and class assumptions on which the books were predicated. In the modern teen novel and the work of Roald Dahl the authors find contemporary attempts to control children within socially established frameworks. Other authors discussed include, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis.

Murray Knowles lectures in Applied English Linguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham.
Kirsten Malmkjxr is Assistant Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics. Her previous publications include The LinguisticsEncyclopedia (Routledge, 1991).

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ISBN 13	9780415086257
ISBN 10	0415086256
Title	Language and Control in Children's Literature
Author	Murray Knowles
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1995-12-14
Number of pages	296
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