English in Perspective
Author | : Felicity Horne |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press Southern Africa |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780195781946 |
A textbook of language study for trainee teachers.
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Author | : Felicity Horne |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press Southern Africa |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780195781946 |
A textbook of language study for trainee teachers.
Author | : Larry S. Champion |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082033846X |
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.
Author | : Liliane Haegeman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 1998-04-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 063118838X |
This book is intended primarily for undergraduate students of English, though it will also be useful for undergraduates in linguistics focusing on English. It shows how a restricted set of principles can account for a wide range of the phenomena of English syntax. While the main focus of the book is empirical, it introduces important theoretical concepts: theta theory, X-bar theory, case theory, locality, binding theory, economy, full interpretation, functional projections. In doing so it prepares the student for more advanced theoretical work. The authors integrate many recent insights into the nature of syntactic structure into their discussion. They present information in a gradual way: hypotheses developed in early chapters are reviewed and modified in subsequent ones. The authors also pay attention to the relation between structure and interpretation and to language variation, and particularly to register variation. They include a wide range of diverse exercises, giving the student an opportunity for creative individual work on English.
Author | : John Muciaccia |
Publisher | : R&L Education |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1610484231 |
Thinking in English represents Dr. Muciaccia's unique method of teaching English to non-native English speakers. Unlike any other English as a Second Language (ESL) book, Muciaccia's book features the "cultural immersion" approach that he has developed and practiced to a fine degree. In addition to his methodology, Muciaccia includes words of encouragement and reviews from people who have benefited from his approach to teaching and learning English.
Author | : Gunther R. Kress |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780415331692 |
This ground-breaking text spans a range of issues central to school English. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other important modes of representation and communication.
Author | : James A. Walker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135913692 |
This textbook is the only one of its kind to introduce the study of Canadian English in the context of basic concepts of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The book provides foundational information on linguistic principles and on the different branches of sociolinguistics, ranging from the large-scale ‘macro’ study of language usage (the sociology of language, dialect surveys) to the ‘micro’ study of language use (sociophonetics, sociolinguistic variation and change). Each chapter highlights the different ways of collecting and analyzing data, including census data and historical texts, surveys and questionnaires, publically available corpora, and interviews. Mini-projects at the end of each chapter offer hands-on experience with the methods presented in the chapter. In addition to discussing the classic works in the study of Canadian English, this book engages with such contemporary issues as new-dialect formation, language and social identity, and ongoing language change, making it key reading for students taking courses in the areas of Canadian English, varieties of English, language variation, and sociolinguistics.
Author | : Barbara M. Birch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-10-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1136879773 |
Designed for ESL and ELT pedagogy courses around the world, this text describes English grammar from a World Englishes perspective. It is distinguished by its focus on the social setting for English as a global language, the latest thinking about grammatical theory, and new theories of how first and second languages are learned and taught. The fundamental premise is that teaching and learning grammar cannot be isolated from the local, regional, and global sociocultural contexts in which the teaching and learning take place. Part I presents different attitudes toward English as a global language and some challenges that learners of English share no matter where they are in the world. Part II is about the features of English that educated speakers consider the most likely and probable in Academic English. Part III describes the flexible and fluid features of English that might be susceptible to change or modification over time. Each chapter includes engaging Study, Discussion, and Essay Questions and Activities.
Author | : Renzhi Li |
Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1581122357 |
Modality is a grammatical, or semantic-grammatical, category. It is an important component of human languages. This is at least the case in most European languages. To what extent is it a near-universal? This thesis is to contribute to the question. It focuses on modal verbs in English and Chinese, two genetically and geographically unrelated languages, and analyzes what these two languages have in common and how they differ in their systems of modality. To achieve the aim, the thesis adopts the theoretical framework proposed by van der Auwera (1996, 1998 with Plungian, 2001) for the typological study of modality. Its language-specific descriptions involve the morphosyntactic features, notional functions, modal logic, and diachronic development. With these descriptions, it constructs a cross-linguistic database in a uniform, parallel structure. Then on the basis of this database, it deals with the cross-linguistic issues about modality in English and Chinese. Like many of the studies in this area, this research makes use of the well-sampled data in the relevant literature, thereby assuring the same degree of representativeness. When the data do not meet this need, it resorts to computer-based corpora. In the diachronic study of Chinese modality, quantitative analysis is adopted in proposing a development path for the senses of a modal. English translation is given particular attention in the description of Chinese modality and cross-linguistic analyses. One can only know one's own language only if one compares it with other languages. The present study is conducive to a better understanding of English and Chinese. It contributes not only to the investigation of language universals, but also to the study of human cognition and other linguistic or applied linguistic issues.
Author | : Istvan Kecskes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107103800 |
Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across the fields of pragmatics, language contact, world Englishes, second language acquisition, and English as a second language.