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From Old English to Standard English
A Course Book in Language Variations Across Time
E-bok, 2017
674 kr
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This practical course book explores the development of the language from Old English to the establishment of Standard English. This third edition has been expanded to provide further background information, with a supplementary website and new sections to outline the development of writing hands …
Analysing Talk
Investigating Verbal Interaction in English
Häftad, 1994
592 kr
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The book offers a step-by-step approach to the task of describing what is systematic in conversational behaviour. The book is organised as a series of practical exercises, teaching skills such as transcribing verbal interaction and identifying and describing 'special events'. An investigation is …
Varieties of English
An Introduction to the Study of Language
Av Peter French, David Langford m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
621 kr
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This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more material. This practical volume provides a wide range of written texts and transcriptions of speech for commentary and analysis. There are further …
Course Book in English Grammar
Standard English and the Dialects
Häftad, 1995
592 kr
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The study of language in written texts and transcripts of speech is greatly helped by a student's abilityBB to identify and describe those prominent features of the grammar which make one variety of English different from another. A Course Book in English Grammar looks at many of the problems …
English Corpus Linguistics
An Introduction
Av Charles F. Meyer, Merja Kyt” m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
703 kr
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English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their …
Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English
Av Katie Wales, Bas Aarts m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
871 kr
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This is the first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English. Drawing on the Survey of English (SEU) corpus and the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), Katie Wales examines a wide range of discourse, types and texts, and of varieties of English around the …
Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case
Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English
Av Izchak M. Schlesinger, Merja Kyt” m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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This study sheds light on the complex relationship between cognitive and linguistic categories. Challenging the view of cases as categories in cognitive space, Professor Schlesinger proposes an understanding of the concept of case. Drawing on evidence from psycholinguistic research and English …
The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800
Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts
Av Laura Wright
Häftad, 2006
636 kr
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There are many questions yet to be answered about how Standard English came into existence. The claim that it developed from a Central Midlands dialect propagated by clerks in the Chancery, the medieval writing office of the king, is one explanation that has dominated textbooks to date. This book …
Chinese Englishes
A Sociolinguistic History
Av Kingsley Bolton, Merja Kyt” m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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This book explores the history of the English language in China from the arrival of the first English-speaking traders in the early seventeenth century to the present. Kingsley Bolton brings together and examines a substantial body of historical, linguistic and sociolinguistic research on the …
Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
Av Jan Firbas, Bas Aarts m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas …
Apposition in Contemporary English
Av Charles F. Meyer, Merja Kyt” m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Apposition in Contemporary English is a full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and American computer corpora. Charles Meyer demonstrates the …
New Zealand English
Its Origins and Evolution
Av Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
770 kr
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New Zealand English - at just 150 years old - is one of the newest varieties of English, and is unique in that its full history and development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. The rich corpus of spoken language provided by New Zealand's 'mobile disk unit' has provided insight into how …
Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English
Av Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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Medical and scientific writing in English has evolved over more than a millennium, from its genesis in the Anglo-Saxon era to its present-day position as the 'lingua franca' of science. This 2004 volume focuses on its development as a genre in late medieval English. During this period it emerged in …
Analysing Older English
Av David Denison, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1224 kr
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Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in …
Infinitival Complement Clauses in English
A Study of Syntax in Discourse
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This study, the first in the series Studies in English Language, is concerned with the functional and communicative foundations of English grammar, and takes as its specific focus the study of infinitival complement clauses. Much of the illustrative material is taken from the Survey of English …
Twentieth-Century English
History, Variation and Standardization
Häftad, 2009
653 kr
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Standard English has evolved and developed in many ways over the past hundred years. From pronunciation to vocabulary to grammar, this concise survey clearly documents the recent history of Standard English. Drawing on large amounts of authentic corpus data, it shows how we can track ongoing …
Nineteenth-Century English
Stability and Change
Av Merja Kytö, Mats Rydén m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This volume of Studies in English Language focuses on the nineteenth century, an important period of both stability and change for the English language. Through ten detailed case studies, it highlights the relationships between English, its users, and nineteenth-century society, looking …
Gender Shifts in the History of English
Av Anne Curzan
Häftad, 2009
636 kr
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How and why did grammatical gender, found in Old English and in other Germanic languages, gradually disappear from English and get replaced by a system where the gender of nouns and the use of personal pronouns depend on the natural gender of the referent? How is this shift related to 'irregular …
Medical Writing in Early Modern English
Av Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta
Inbunden, 2011
1722 kr
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Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical …
English in the Southern United States
Av Stephen J. Nagle, Sara L. Sanders
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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The English of the southern United States is possibly the most studied of any regional variety of any language because of its rich internal diversity, its distinctiveness among regional varieties in the United States, its significance as a marker of regional identity, and the general folkloric …
Irish English
History and Present-Day Forms
Häftad, 2012
771 kr
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English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This 2007 book traces the development of English in Ireland, both north and south, from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on authentic data ranging from …
Legacies of Colonial English
Studies in Transported Dialects
Häftad, 2011
1005 kr
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As a result of colonization, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Originally published in 2005, Legacies of Colonial English brings together a team of internationally renowned scholars to discuss the role of British dialects in both the genesis and subsequent history of …
The English Noun Phrase
The Nature of Linguistic Categorization
Häftad, 2010
754 kr
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English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); possessive constructions ('the author's opinion'); and discontinuous noun phrases ('the review [came out yesterday] of his book'). How are these …
One Language, Two Grammars?
Differences between British and American English
Av Gunther Rohdenburg, Günter Rohdenburg m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with …
Interactions across Englishes
Linguistic Choices in Local and International Contact Situations
Inbunden, 2012
1761 kr
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English is a language at the centre of research into language contact, because its global spread has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, leading to the creation of many new varieties of English, including second language varieties, and also pidgins and …
Communicating Early English Manuscripts
Av Päivi Pahta, Andreas H. Jucker
Inbunden, 2011
942 kr
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In an obvious way, manuscripts communicate. This is the first book to focus on the communicative aspects of English manuscripts from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. It investigates how the authors and scribes of these manuscripts communicated with their audiences, how the characters …
Narrative in English Conversation
A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling
Inbunden, 2014
1106 kr
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Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query …
Quoting Speech in Early English
Inbunden, 2011
1844 kr
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Before quotation marks became widespread convention, English texts were organized more fluidly, employing varying lexical and textual strategies for marking represented discourse. When we add our present-day quotation marks to editions of Middle English texts, we also overlay our modern …
British or American English?
A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns
Av John Algeo, Kyt&
Inbunden, 2006
1801 kr
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Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do …
Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
Av Jan Firbas, Kyt&
Inbunden, 1992
2012 kr
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Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas …
