Roger Fowler (1938–1999) was a world-renowned and long-serving

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, and was

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and

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at the

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. He is well known for his works in

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. Together with Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress and

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, he authored the influential book ''Language and Control'', which gave rise to the discipline of

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. He was educated at

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His Works

* ''An Introduction to Transformational Syntax'' * ''Understanding Language: an Introduction to Linguistics'' * ''Dictionary Of Modern Critical Terms'' * ''Linguistic Criticism'' * ''The Routledge Dictionary Of Literary Terms'' (by Peter Childs and Roger Fowler) * ''Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms'' * ''Linguistics And The Novel'' * ''The Language of George Orwell (Language of Literature)''

References

1939 births 1999 deaths Academics of the University of East Anglia Linguists from England {{UK-linguist-stub