Caroline Coffin Bücher

Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, Analysing English in a Global Context is specifically designed for the postgraduate student market, as well as for teachers of English as a second or foreign language throughout the world. This is a groundbreaking Reader which includes specially commissioned pieces as well as classic texts and provides a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and its impact on language teaching contexts. Students' skills in analysing these forms will be developed through an examination of the major functional models and their strengths and weaknesses.

'She was a warm body... I didn't want to know her. And I didn't want to notice the small black charred hole in the back of her trench coat. I grabbed a wrist. It was warm but there was no pulse. Not that I could feel...' It's been a long hot summer. At the Women's Hotline, Emma Victor is struggling under the burden of too many calls and too many government cuts. Then she gets a cry for help she simply can't refuse. Reluctantly Victor agrees to break the rules and meet her client. There's only one problem: the woman's already dead...