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Author : Marianne Hundt,Sandra Mollin,Simone E. Pfenninger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107086869
Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.
Author : David Graddol,Dick Leith,Joan Swann,Martin Rhys,Julia Gillen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000155310
Changing English examines the history of English from its origins in the fifth century to the present day. It focuses on the radical changes that have taken place in the structure of English over a millennium and a half, detailing the influences of migration, colonialism and many other historical, social and cultural phenomena. Expert authors illustrate and analyze dialects, accents and the shifting styles of individual speakers as they respond to changing circumstances. The reader is introduced to many key debates relating to the English language, illustrated by specific examples of data in context. Including key material retained from the earlier bestselling book, English: History, Diversity and Change, this edition has been thoroughly reorganized and updated with entirely new material. Changing English: explains basic concepts, easily located through a comprehensive index includes contributions by experts in the field, such as David Crystal, David Graddol, Dick Leith, Lynda Mugglestone and Joan Swann contains a range of source material and commissioned readings to supplement chapters. Changing English makes an essential contribution to the field of English language studies.
Author : Brian Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015004889815
Author : Ken Hyland,Lillian L C Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135051907
Questions about what to teach and how best to teach it are what drive professional practice in the English language classroom. Innovation and change in English language education addresses these key questions so that teachers are able to understand and manage change to organise teaching and learning more effectively. The book provides an accessible introduction to current theory and research in innovation and change in ELT and shows how these understandings have been applied to the practical concerns of the curriculum and the classroom. In specially commissioned chapters written by experts in the field, the volume sets out the key issues in innovation and change and shows how these relate to actual practice offers a guide to innovation and change in key areas grounded in research relates theory to practice through the use of illustrative case studies and examples brings together the very best scholarship in TESOL and language education from around the world This book will be of interest to upper undergraduate and graduate students in applied linguistics, language education and TESOL as well as pre-service and in-service teachers, teacher educators, researchers and administrators keen to create and manage teaching and learning more effectively.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966115631
Author : Ian Cushing
Publisher : Cambridge Topics in English Language
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781108402231
This is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge Corpus, it looks at the way meaning is made using authentic written and spoken examples. This helps students give confident analysis and articulate responses. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, the book guides students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.
Author : Robert Lawrence Trask,Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521838023
Packed with fascinating examples, this entertaining book explores changes in the English language over time.
Author : Gretchen McCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780735210950
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.
Author : Charles Boberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139491440
The English Language in Canada examines the current status, history and principal features of Canadian English, focusing on the 'standard' variety heard across the country today. The discussion of the status of Canadian English considers the number and distribution of its speakers, its relation to French and other Canadian languages and to American English, its status as the expressive medium of English Canadian culture and its treatment in previous research. The review of its history concentrates on the historical roots and patterns of English-speaking settlement that established Canadian English and influenced its character in each region of Canada. The analysis of its principal features compares the vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of Canadian English to standard British and American English. Subsequent chapters examine variation and change in the vocabulary and pronunciation of Canadian English, while a final chapter briefly considers the future of Canadian English.
Author : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110429763
This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.
Author : Steve Kleinedler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351114059
Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a lively and concise introduction to language change, refuting commonly held misconceptions about language evolution as we understand it. Showing that English, like all living languages, has historically changed and continues to change, this book: analyzes developments in the lexicon, the way words are spoken or written, and the way in which speakers and writers use words; offers a basic overview of the major subfields of linguistics, including phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, all viewed through the prism of language change; discusses change over time with examples from Old English, Middle English, and Modern English; reinforces important concepts with examples from other languages, including Spanish, Japanese, and Czech; clearly defines key terms and includes advice on rules, usage, and style, as well as ample annotated further reading and activities throughout. Aimed at undergraduate students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book is essential reading for those studying this topic for the first time.
Author : Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108492850
Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.
Author : Merja Kytö,John Scahill,Harumi Tanabe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English philology
ISBN : 3034303726
This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.
Author : Simeon Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015050633596
Author : Catherine Delesse,Elise Louviot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527512238
This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. Just like any other language, English is a complex system made up of several interconnected sub-systems – lexical, syntactical, phonological, morphological – and all of those sub-systems are subject to change, resulting in constant shifts and readjustments. Additionally, more than some other languages, English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly with the influence of Scandinavian and Romance languages in the Middle Ages. The contributions here consider all aspects of that complex history, with four of them taking a particular interest in the issues brought about by language contact with French and Latin.