Testing spoken language a handbook of oral testing techniques by Underhill lhNic

Testing spoken language A handbook of oral testing techniques by Underhill lhNic

Collins introducing English to young children spoken language by Dunn, Opal

Beginner's Iraqi Arabic an introduction to the spoken language of Iraq by Nasrallah, Nawal, Hassani, Nadia

Loan-words in Indonesian and Malay

Questions about language what everyone should know about language in the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…Is written language better than spoken language? / Andreea S. Calude -- 6. Is language change good or bad?…”

The voice in the machine building computers that understand speech by Pieraccini, Roberto 1955-

Language diversity in the Sinophone world historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices

Table of Contents: “…: divergent views in the times of transition / Richard VanNess Simmons -- Manchu, Mandarin, and the politicization of spoken language in Qing China / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- Romanizing southern Mǐn : missionaries and the promotion of written Chinese vernaculars / Don Snow -- Interactions across Englishes in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Singapore / Christiane Meirkord -- One legacy, two legislations : language policies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait / Henning Klöter -- Language policy and practice in Taiwan in the early twenty-first century / Su-Chio Chen -- A tale of two special administrative regions : the state of multilingualism in Hong Kong and Macao / David C.S. …”

Introducing english language a resource book for students by Mullany, Louise, Stockwell, Peter

Table of Contents: “…A Introduction: key basic concepts; 1 Phonetics and phonology; 2 Morphology and lexicology; 3 Semantics and pragmatics; 4 Grammatical parts; 5 Text and discourse; 6 Early language acquisition; 7 Psycholinguistics; 8 Origins of English; 9 Sociolinguistics; 10 World Englishes; 11 Stylistics; 12 Methodological paradigms; 13 Language theories; B Development: aspects of English; 1 Consonants and vowels; 2 Lexical semantics; 3 Pragmatic principles; 4 Syntax; 5 Conversation; 6 Literacy; 7 Schemas and worlds. 8 Standardisation and language change9 Language attitudes; 10 Codification; 11 Stylistic analysis; 12 Techniques and ethics; 13 Language and thought; C Exploration: investigating English language; 1 Performing accents; 2 Word plays; 3 Doing politeness; 4 Syntactic effects; 5 Texts in action; 6 Learning to read; 7 Exploring the mind; 8 Corrections; 9 Identify yourself; 10 Influencing language; 11 Exploring literature; 12 Collecting data; 13 Theory into practice; D Extension: linguistic readings; 1 Articulating masculinity (Kiesling); 2 The search for units of meaning (Sinclair). 3 The speech acts of the in-group (Cutting)4 Prefabricated expressions in spoken language (Cheshire); 5 Advertising discourse (Cook); 6 Socialisation and grammatical development (Ochs and Schieffelin); 7 Promoting perception (Field); 8 Lexical change (Smith); 9 Social relationships and social practices (Milroy and Gordon); 10 The development of World Englishes (Kirkpatrick); 11 Speech and thought as point of view (Simpson); 12 Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research (Dörnyei); 13 Researching 'real' language (Carter and Sealey)…”