Introdungcing English language part 12 ppt

... taken. We will explore some of the most significant of these issues in B12. LANGUAGE THEORIES Almost everything we have said about language in the first twelve strands in this book has been contentious ... be the field of discussion in unit B13. SECTION B DEVELOPMENT: ASPECTS OF ENGLISH SWIN|KCrEIB1Qqc8svpQueSEh0w== |128 2035821 LANGUAGE THEORIES 53 new perspectives. No doubt our current...

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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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... of language in their full context and natural setting, as stylisticians have always done. METHODOLOGICAL PARADIGMS In order to consider different methodological paradigms that inform English language study ... paradigms is discussed thoroughly in D12. In this unit we will focus on characterising and then illustrating the different types of paradigms that are followed in English langu...

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... and that’, ‘yesterday, today, and tomorrow’ all entail each other as part of their main meaning. A peculiar set of words in English are contronyms, words that can have their own opposite meaning. ... the aristocracy), ‘clip’ (attach together or cut apart), ‘cover’ (conceal or oversee), and many others. A word is a hyponym of another if it is part of the general category and is regarded...

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... national standardisation of the language. People who speak with a Welsh, Northern English, or American or Australian accent, or who use Hiberno -English, West Midlands English or Geordie dialects ... within the English language system (or any other language system for that matter) that makes one variety better or superior to another variety. B9 CODIFICATION 99 who speak a form of...

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... speaking; boys will be boys fat water; the sadness of pencils 124 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE Figure C1.1 WORD PLAYS 127 How do the following break morphological rules: ‘borg’ (from ... 128 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE Discuss the effects of each change. Then make a list of every occurrence ... politeness in this emergent area of cyberspace. Activity...

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... example. Her own writing is repro- duced overleaf. Activity 6.2 J 144 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE q What kind of communicative problems did this cause? q What happened next in the discourse? q ... public and private spheres. Consider how this differs in various cultural contexts where the English language is spoken. LEARNING TO READ Learning to spell Ada is 5 years old...

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... your Animadversion. 158 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE But, instead of giving you a List of the late Refinements crept into our Language; I here send you the Copy of a Letter I received ... their original Spelling, that whoever hath been used to plain English , will hardly know them by sight. [. . .] In order to reform our Language, I conceive, My Lord, that a free judici...

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... 2002: x) World Englishes and the mass media Materials from the mass media provide a plethora of sources of English language data for students and researchers to analyse and World Englishes is no ... circles. Even in non- English- speaking locations, product names are very frequently given in English. Bhatia cites the examples of soap names in rural India, where knowledge of English A...

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