Investigating Spoken English

Author : Štefan Beňuš
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030543495

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Investigating Spoken English by Štefan Beňuš Pdf

Combining coverage of the key concepts and tools within phonetics and phonology with a systematic introduction to Praat, this textbook provides a lively and engaging 'way in' to the discipline. The author first covers the fundamentals of the articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech and introduces Praat as the main tool for examining and visualising speech. Next, the unit of analysis is gradually expanded (from syllables to words to turns and dialogues) and excerpts of real dialogues exemplify the core concepts for discovering how speech works. The final part of the book brings all the concepts and notions together with commentaries to the transcription of several short excerpts of dialogues. This book will be essential reading for students on undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology.

Author : Susan Boyer
Publisher : Boyer Educational Resources
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781877074080

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Understanding Spoken English by Susan Boyer Pdf

"This series has been designed to help students of English understand spoken language as it is encountered in everyday business and social situations in English speaking environments aroudn the world."--Back cover.

Author : Rebecca Hughes,Beatrice Szczepek Reed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317432999

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Teaching and Researching Speaking by Rebecca Hughes,Beatrice Szczepek Reed Pdf

Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom materials, and assessment. The history and current practices of teaching and researching speaking are presented through the lens of bigger theoretical issues about the object of study in linguistics, social attitudes to the spoken form, and the relationships between spoken and written language. A unique feature of the book is the way it clearly explains the nature of speaking and how it is researched and puts it into the context of a readable and holistic overview of language theory. This new edition is fully updated and revised to reflect the latest developments on classroom materials and oral assessment, as well as innovations in conversation analysis. The resources section is brought up-to-date with new media and currently available networks, online corpora, and mobile applications. This is a key resource for applied linguistics students, English language teachers, teacher trainers, and novice researchers.

Author : Beyza Björkman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110279542

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English as an Academic Lingua Franca by Beyza Björkman Pdf

As a result of globalization, higher education institutions throughout the world are adopting English for parts of their education. Higher education is becoming increasingly international and thus linguistically diverse, for educational, idealistic and financial reasons. This book presents a much-needed description of English as a lingua franca (ELF) from an international university setting and focuses on form and pragmatic issues, using authentic spoken data. It provides useful insights into how communicative effectiveness can be achieved in spoken lingua franca communication.

Author : Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Compact discs
ISBN : 3823358227

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Concession in Spoken English by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten Pdf

Author : Chris Fitzgerald
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000823653

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Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies by Chris Fitzgerald Pdf

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools. Focusing on the oral history archive at the Irish Bureau of Military History, this book shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain hidden. This is exemplified through the investigation of how certainty is constructed in this archive through a number of expressions and which serves as a template for both how oral history can aid linguistic understanding and how corpus linguistics can contribute to oral history investigation. Highlighting why oral history archives are worthy of linguistic analysis and showing what readers can gain from blending linguistic tools and competencies with oral history data, this book is essential reading for all researchers and students working in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and oral history.

Author : Sara Gesuato,Winnie Cheng
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781443883320

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Teaching, Learning and Investigating Pragmatics by Sara Gesuato,Winnie Cheng Pdf

This volume presents a collection of research papers investigating how to foster the learning and teaching of pragmatic phenomena, as well as how to administer tests that assess pragmatic competence in second/foreign language education with regards to several target languages. The topics investigated include: speech acts; computer-mediated communication; conversation analysis; pragmatic, intercultural, and emotional competence; native and non-native performance; data collection and instructional methods; needs analysis; and syllabus design and materials development. The contributions will be of particular interest to linguists, language learners and teachers, teacher trainers, and communication experts.

Author : A. Edwards,D. P. G. Westgate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135720247

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Investigating Classroom Talk by A. Edwards,D. P. G. Westgate Pdf

In this fully revised and extended edition, Tony Edwards and David Westgate continue to examine methods of investigation for use in classrooms and ways in which researchers and teachers may advance their knowledge of classroom talk. They have taken the opportunity to add material on oracy and the importance of spoken language in the curriculum.; All research evidence and bibliographic material has been revised and updated. This book should continue to be an important text for a new generation of students and researchers in language and linguistics, social science and education studies.

Author : Almut Koester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134218936

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Investigating Workplace Discourse by Almut Koester Pdf

Featuring a corpus of conversations from the UK and USA, this overview of the characteristics of workplace discourse and the approaches needed to analyze them, pays attention to interactions with a social focus, such as office gossip. It also explores issues, such as politeness, power, conflict and consensus-building.

Author : Linda Shockey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470758243

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Sound Patterns of Spoken English by Linda Shockey Pdf

Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms. Concise, to-the-point compendium of information about casual pronunciation of English as compared to citation forms. Covers varieties of English language including General American and Standard Southern British. Overlaps the boundaries of several areas of study including sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, and speech sciences. Examines English pronunciation as found in everyday speech. Accompanied by website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shockey featuring examples from different accents.

Author : Keith Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748696093

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Critical Account of English Syntax by Keith Brown Pdf

A descriptive and comprehensive account of English syntax and grammarTackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this companion brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years.Encyclopedic format gives immediate access the most relevant topicCross-referencing allows students to follow a thread and explore the interrelationships between syntactic structuresInnovative structure of the volume enables lecturers to decide the order in which they wish to discuss topics and to prescribe readingThis is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.

Author : Lesley Milroy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134687572

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Authority in Language by Lesley Milroy Pdf

This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity.

Author : Claudia Lange
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273093

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The Syntax of Spoken Indian English by Claudia Lange Pdf

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain of discourse organization and examines the form, function and distribution of invariant tags such as isn’t it and no/na, non-initial existential there, focus markers only and itself, topicalization and left-dislocation. By focusing on multilingual speakers’ interactions, the study demonstrates conclusively that spoken Indian English bears all the hallmarks of a vibrant contact language, testifying to a pan-South Asian ‘grammar of culture’ which becomes apparent in contact-induced language change in spoken Indian English. The book will be highly relevant for anyone interested in postcolonial varieties of English, contact linguistics, standardization, and discourse-pragmatic sentence structure.

Author : Ruanni Tupas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040018125

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Investigating Unequal Englishes by Ruanni Tupas Pdf

Ruanni Tupas presents rich insights into the inequalities of Englishes and the ways in which these inequalities shape and impact English and multilingual speakers from around the world. This edited volume gives a critical take on world Englishes, while showcasing for readers the various inequalities in treatment towards the people who speak English differently, as well as the injustice in that treatment. Research methodologies are explored, providing a glimpse into how data are collected and lending a more thorough look into each study and its conclusions. Chapters address the geopolitics of knowledge production in the teaching, learning and use of English, with strong representations from the peripheries of sociolinguistic studies of English. English is constructed as a language which enables socioeconomic mobility which is one factor that increases the importance of research into this issue, and this book enables researchers to widen their methods of research and apply them to their area of study. A valuable text for academic researchers, as well as postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students, to better understand the linguistic, sociopolitical and epistemic inequality in English communication. It also provides readers with alternative perspectives on lingua-cultural pluralism to unpack social inequalities and hierarchies that exist today.

Author : Rebecca Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134802654

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English in Speech and Writing by Rebecca Hughes Pdf

In this activity-based text, Rebecca Hughes invites the reader to examine the differences between spoken and written English. Instead of presenting a bewildering array of 'facts' about variety in English, she encourages the reader to actively investigate the differences between these two modes of communication by comparing actual speech patterns with literary ones. This indispensable guide to the basic methods of analysis provides both an overview of the relationship between speech and writing and an introduction to a central theoretical issue in language studies. By the end of the book, readers will have had the opportunity to consider material from an extensive selection of spoken and written varieties - including boxing commentaries, detective novels and film scripts - while being encouraged to formulate their own opinions with regard to lexis and structure. In addition, the tasks that have been incorporated into the end of every chapter provide suggestions for further self-study and follow-up work.