Introdungcing English language part 14 pptx

... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... The language of a sales representative to customers in a retail outlet Language in the media a) The language of radio broadcast interviews b) The language of televised political debates c) The language ... a set of laws m language is a computer program m language is a game m language is a virus or disease m language is a building or territory m language is a family Can you...

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... cultures within the English- speaking community) socialise language. Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin (reprinted from P. Fletcher and B. MacWhinney (eds) The Handbook of Child Language (1995), Oxford: ... the course of the early period of their lives. Language socialization – the process in which children are socialized both through language and to use language within a community...

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... different languages, the subsequent reorganisations seem to be particularly large. The result of these two processes, externally and internally induced variation, is that any given language- state, ... tied to each other to varying degrees. A further postulate with particular relevance to students of language change (or its converse, language maintenance) is that structural and content...

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... Introducing English Language : a resource book for students / Louise Mullany and Peter Stockwell. p. cm. — (Routledge English language introductions) 1. English language Grammar. 2. English language. ... used to ask questions about the English language. ’ Chris Christie, University of Loughborough, UK Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of languag...

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... 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 35 10 World Englishes 39 11 Stylistics ... 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...

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