Introdungcing English language part 4 ppsx

... (present participle), and ‘looked’ (past participle). These additional morphemes are all suffixes – they follow the root word. Most English grammatical morphemes are suffixes, though in the past English ... a beginning learner of English, an elementary word-for-word translating dictionary will be pretty hopeless. Words and their parts The notion of a word is therefore not particularly stra...

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... or Old English language. Old English Though many vocabulary items are recognisable to modern English speakers, the main striking difference in Old English is the case system. In modern English, ... rather than Celtic customs agreed by the Whitby Synod (6 64) , and even Bede writing his Ecclesiastical History of the English People not in secular English but in scholarly Latin (H...

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... is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Activity 4. 3 J Activity 4. 4 J 140 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE The inconsistencies of the final two messages on her mobile ... sucked out into space. Activity 4. 5 J TEXTS IN ACTION 141 Produce a detailed analysis of the conversation between Tony Blair and George W. Bush, focusing first of all in particular upon...

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... of groups that members can join on this particular topic. These groups name themselves Activity 9 .4 J 1 64 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE according to the particular lexical variant they ... existence here, with shared language norms, often at the level of stereotypes, explicitly highlighted. These groups draw attention to sociolinguistic regional language features, l...

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... to self 3 14 Positive to interlocutors/communication 43 43 Negative to interlocutors/communication 19 7 Positive to third party/situation 13 5 Negative to third party/situation 21 24 Table D3.2 Percentage ... and ‘negative to third party’ speech acts out of all units Term Positive to Negative Negative to interlocutors to self third party Autumn term 5 2 4 Spring term 9 3 7 Summer term...

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... PE1112.M78 2010 42 8.0071—dc22 200903 349 8 ISBN 10: 0 -41 5 -44 886-7 (hbk) ISBN 10: 0 -41 5 -44 885-9 (pbk) ISBN 10: 0-203-85811-5 (ebk) ISBN 13: 978-0 -41 5 -44 886 -4 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-0 -41 5 -44 885-7 (pbk) ISBN ... Introducing English Language : a resource book for students / Louise Mullany and Peter Stockwell. p. cm. — (Routledge English language introductions) 1. Engli...

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... 10 4 Grammatical parts 14 5 Text and discourse 19 6 Early language acquisition 23 7 Psycholinguistics 27 8 History of English 30 9 Sociolinguistics 35 10 World Englishes 39 11 Stylistics 43 12 ... paradigms 48 13 Language theories 52 B Development: aspects of English 57 1 Consonants and vowels 58 2 Lexical semantics 64 3 Pragmatic principles 67 4 Syntax 73 5 Conversation 79...

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... of the English language, or any other language for that matter, can only exist as abstract entities. They can never be literally produced by speakers. The written system of the English language, ... pairs. A1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The English Language is too wide a topic even for two authors, and this book has been produced in the productive company of many friends and colleagues. In...

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... have been if direct speech acts were used instead? GRAMMATICAL PARTS As native speakers of a language, we all have the rules of that language interiorised in our minds: we know how to express just ... how language works are called grammars, and they can differ from each other quite radically (even talking about the ‘rules’ of language would be contentious for some grammarians). We know...

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... for discourse in language and linguistics is conceptualising it as language above the level of the sentence. While graphemes, phonemes, morphemes and lexemes are the build- ing blocks of language, discourse ... here. TEXT AND DISCOURSE In language and linguistics study it is established practice for the term text to be defined as a continuous stretch of written or spoken language. Whil...

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