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English Language description, variation and context

This wide-ranging introductory textbook no only presents the English language from multiple perspectives, but also provides the reader with the necessary grounding in linguistics to investigate it for themselves. Fully revised and updated to take account of the latest developments in the field, the...

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Other Authors: Culpeper, Jonathan 1966- (Editor), Kerswill, Paul (Editor), Wodak, Ruth 1950- (Editor), McEnery, Tony 1964- (Editor), Katamba, Francis 1947- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan 2018
Edition:Second edition
Subjects:
English language
English language > History
English language > Variation
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Studying the English language
  • Part 1. English: Structure.- 2. Phonetics.- 3. Phonology.- 4. Morphology: word structure.- 5. Grammar: words (and phrases).- 6. Grammar: phrases (and clauses).- 7. Grammar: clauses (and sentences).- 8. Text linguistics.- 9. Semantics.- 10. Pragmatics
  • Part 2. English: History.- 11. Standard English and standardization.- 12. The history of English spelling.- 13. Phonological change.- 14. Lexical change.- 15. Semantic change.- 16. Grammatical change
  • Part 3. English speech: regional and social variation.- 17. Regional variation in English accents and dialects.- 18. Language and social class.- 19. Language and ethnicity.- 20. Pidgins and creole Englishes.- 21. World Englishes and English as a lingua franca.- 22. Discourse on language: attitudes to diversity
  • Part 4. English writing: style, genre and practice.- 23. Speech, writing and discourse type.- 24. Language in newspapers.- 25. Language in advertisements.- 26. Language in literature: stylistics.- 27. Literary practices.- 28. New technologies: literacies in cyberspace
  • Part 5. English: style, communication and interaction.- 29. Structures of conversation.- 30. Language, reality and power.- 31. Politeness in interaction.- 32. Gender and language.- 33. Language and sexuality.- 34. Bad language.- 35. Language and politics.- 36. Business communication
  • Part 6: English: learning and teaching.- 37. First language acquisition.- 38. Languages and literacies in education.- 39. TESOL and linguistics
  • Part 7: English investigating.- 40. The corpus method.
  • 41. Methods for researching English language.

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