Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation [Paperback]

Martin Millar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 1994

This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a wide-ranging repertoire of analytical concepts and techniques, described in basic, clear terms, and drawn from a broad range of areas of linguistics and language study. The aim of the book is to enable students to discover for themselves what is interesting about different language situations, and to begin to interrogate the relationship between language, society, and ideology. "The Language of Everyday Life" includes: topics for discussion; exercises, and; further readings; extensive glossary of technical terms; and, a practical guide to project work.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Random House UK (February 27, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094779591X
• ISBN-13: 978-0947795917
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,760,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars So good it'll make you swallow your tongue!, January 5, 1998

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This review is from: Milk Sulphate and Alby Starvation (Paperback)

Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams are amateurs compared to Martin Millar, who writes clever, complex tales of British slackers and their loves and paranoias. Alby Starvation is a twentysomething everyman. This book follows Alby's persecution by the Milk Marketing board, and his eventual triumph and the tearful reunion with his comics collection. It doesn't get any better than this.

5.0 out of 5 stars CRYING WITH LAUGHTER (BUT NOT OVER SPILT MILK), March 15, 1999

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This review is from: Milk Sulphate and Alby Starvation (Paperback)

Imagine the sort of writer Irvine Welsh would be if he'd never been bullied at School, and you've got Martin Millar - one of the most imaginative and downright hilarious modern British writers alive today. In Albhy,Sulphate.... we find ourselves in familiar Millar territory amidst the underbelly of Brixton life, and follow the misfortunes of anti-hero Alby as he struggles wilfully with The Milk Board, bad skin, rare comics and beatiful female assasins - a riot, can't wait for the film!