Introdungcing English language part 10 pot

... descriptions of different, emergent varieties of English. In particular reference to English as a lingua franca (though this is a point that applies equally to all World Englishes research), Seidlhofer argues ... dictionary publications of Jamaican English and Bahamas English and a dictionary of English usage published in the late 1990s, but no national dictionary. No other World En...

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... Standardisation 91 9 Language attitudes 95 10 Codification 99 11 Stylistic analysis 103 12 Techniques and ethics 107 13 Language and thought 111 C Exploration: investigating English language 117 1 Performing ... and pragmatics 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 3...

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... essential participant role of actor involved, plus an optional participant of goal. In the first two examples here, ‘I’ is the actor, and ‘the glass’ is the goal. Other, less direct participants ... participant, the behaver, though an indirect participant in the form of the behaviour itself could also feature (‘She smiled a crooked smile’). Mental processes proper more usually have two partici...

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... announcements, laws and national newspapers – all adopt a particular variety of the language, this is known as codification (see A10 and B10). In medieval English, the East Midlands dialect from Nottinghamshire ... history as well as a delib- erate act of language planning. In the later twentieth century, Standard English was very much promoted as the ‘correct’ form of English, with ma...

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... Byron (1815) B11 102 DEVELOPMENT: ASPECTS OF ENGLISH definitive record of the English language (OED 2009). Oxford University Press, the publishing house that owns all Oxford English dictionaries, ... World Englishes varieties are currently thriving, particularly when varieties of Englishes are used as lingua francas, where individuals from different nation- alities come together and us...

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... language that are subtly struc- turing our perspective and thinking. Means of access through language Of course, researchers in language face a significant difficulty because of the fact that language ... involves the analysis of evidence is LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT 115 empirical, and so there is a sense in which intuitions about language data and the systematic analysis of language...

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... 120 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE q Finally, translate both of these poems into Standard written English and then read them out again in your own accent. ... whissle; An’ legs an’ arms, an’ hands will sned, Like taps o’ trissle. 122 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE Ye Pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care, And dish them out their bill o’ fare, Auld Scotland ......

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... loud, and then work out how Swift has made English look like Latin. Can you rewrite the passage with conventional word-boundaries and spellings in English? Mollis abuti, Has an acuti, No lasso ... squeezing country sang the drivniks. Activity 11.2 J Activity 11.3 J 172 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE of the text. Of course, you might disagree and find that the work organis...

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... Cardiff accent is unusual in British English in that glottalisation is regarded as a prestigious rather than stigmatised feature. Sociolinguistics and sociophoneticians are particularly drawn to anomalous ... Welsh heartlands where Welsh was overwhelmingly the majority language until 1900 (e.g. most of Gwynedd and Dyfed, together with parts of Clwyd and fragments of West Glamorgan and Po...

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... as a last resort generate language that is not part of our memor- ised lexicon. Even a moderate view, however, suggests that when we are analysing spontaneous spoken language it is important ... adverbial clauses in their analyses of adverbial clauses in spoken English. Jenny Cheshire PREFABRICATED EXPRESSIONS IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE 219 such form involves verbal -s. This of course is u...

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