The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader is an introduction to the most innovative and influential writings that have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity in the twentieth century. Selected theoretical texts are grouped together in themed sections which include:
* Theorising the Sign
* Language in History
* Language and Subjectivity
* Language and Gender
* Language and Sexuality
* Order and Difference
* Language Communities
* Englishes
* Language and Creativity
* Languages/Cultures
* Language and Colonialism
* Language, Class and Education
Each section is prefaced by an editorial introduction and concludes with suggestions for further reading. The Reader adopts a problem-based approach and offers extensive cross-referencing. The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader is essential for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level working within the disciplines of English language, literary studies, cultural studies and linguistics. _

A core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings which have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity in the twentieth-century.
Selected theoretical texts are grouped together in themed sections, with extensive cross-referencing. Each section is prefaced by an editorial introduction outlining and contextualising the issues and arguments with which each section is concerned, and concluded with suggestions for further reading.