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Author : Gerard O'Grady
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441147172
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Author : David Brazil
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 019437193X
This fresh analysis of spoken English grammar is based on the observation of naturally-occurring speech, rather than deriving from inappropriate pre-existing written models.
Author : Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz,Xuehua Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317665045
Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.
Author : Douglas Biber,Stig Johansson,Geoffrey N. Leech,Susan Conrad,Edward Finegan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260475
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of language use for each grammatical feature, based on empirical analyses of grammatical patterns in a 40-million-word corpus of spoken and written registers. Grammar-in-use is characterized by three inter-related kinds of information: frequency of grammatical features in spoken and written registers, frequencies of the most common lexico-grammatical patterns, and analysis of the discourse factors influencing choices among related grammatical features. GSWE includes over 350 tables and figures highlighting the results of corpus-based investigations. Throughout the book, authentic examples illustrate all research findings. The empirical descriptions document the lexico-grammatical features that are especially common in face-to-face-conversation compared to those that are especially common in academic writing. Analyses of fiction and newspaper articles are included as further benchmarks of language use. GSWE contains over 6,000 authentic examples from these four registers, illustrating the range of lexico-grammatical features in real-world speech and writing. In addition, comparisons between British and American English reveal specific regional differences. Now completely redesigned and available in an electronic edition, the Grammar of Spoken and Written English remains a unique and indispensable reference work for researchers, language teachers, and students alike.
Author : Robert E. Longacre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489901620
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.
Author : Malcolm Coulthard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134918928
This collection reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing, for the first time, a developmental perspective. It combines previously published but unavailable work with new research. Bringing together recent theories of discourse structure, with a new and detailed analytic framework, the book emphasises both historical context and new developments. The articles are comprehensive, ranging from the theoretical to the highly applied. Practical applications include language teaching, literary stylistics and forensic linguistics with examples taken from literature and language classrooms, telephone conversations, disputed witness statements and corpuses of spoken English.
Author : Rebecca Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134802661
This book provides an overview of the differences between spoken and written English. It is a genuinely interactive task based text.
Author : Ronald Carter,Michael McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521568609
A practical, insightful exploration of natural spoken English based on 20 varied authentic extracts. Exploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken English, designed for teachers and advanced learners of English for use in groups and for self-study. The material consists of 20 varied extracts of authentic spoken English drawn from the Cambridge University Press and University of Nottingham corpus of spoken English. Each unit contains an activity for the reader and a line-by-line commentary offering new insights into grammar, vocabulary and discourse patterns in the text. Audio CDs to accompany this book, available to purchase separately, contain all the extracts, some re-recorded for the purposes of clarity.
Author : Alexander Haselow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108417211
This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.
Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748675869
Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.
Author : Ken Paterson,Caroline Caygill,Rebecca Sewell
Publisher : Delta Publishing Company(IL)
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 1905085540
Using recent corpus research into spoken English the Handbook of Spoken Grammar teaches learners to speak more naturally, using the patterns that native speakers use when speaking English.
Author : Karin Aijmer,Anna-Brita Stenström
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253625
This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.
Author : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038606781
This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an account of writing systems, to a comparative treatment of spoken and written language, contrasting the prosodic features and grammatical intricacy of speech with the high lexical density and grammatical metaphor or writing.
Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521597692
This book argues for putting spoken language at the centre of the syllabus.
Author : Kristin Bech,Ruth Möhlig-Falke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110682564
This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.
