Introdungcing English language part 25 pps

... dog) Activity 4.1 J Activity 4.2 J C4 132 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE Now consider the following examples, particularly from the perspective of point 2, responsibility and blame: q ... tidy up after yourself so there is room for the next visitor. 134 EXPLORATION: INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE Although the IFID tokens are present, pre-modified by an intensifier, ‘extreme...

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... (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, ... the Whitby Synod (664), and even Bede writing his Ecclesiastical History of the English People not in secular English but in scholarly Latin (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum)...

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... INVESTIGATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE The alien shot past her. With inhuman reflexes it reached out an appendage and caught hold of her trailing leg, just above the ankle. She found herself dangling partway ... 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 phone demonstrate...

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... of groups that members can join on this particular topic. These groups name themselves Activity 9.4 J 164 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, langu...

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... sociolinguistic language data. One of its most significant innovations lies in the fact that it can be used to assess sociolinguistic language variation across three different levels of the language ... your regional origins, for soft shoes in Figure C12.1. Another part of the pre-interview pack is a question- naire designed to test participants’ awareness of non-standard grammatical...

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... 7 Positive to third party/situation 13 5 Negative to third party/situation 21 24 Table D3.2 Percentage of ‘positive to interlocutors’, ‘negative to self’ and ‘negative to third party’ speech acts ... focuses on the 1991–1992 in-group of students of the then Department of Applied Linguistics (DAL) and in particular on six native-speakers of English [. . .], in order to describe the social ru...

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... ‘Linguistics Research’ and Language and Linguistics’ are ‘interesting’ and that he is ‘really quite pleased’: (12) AM Cos (0.5) I mean things like Linguistics Research and that stuff in Language and Linguistics. It’s ... yet they are the ones who are most negative to self and third party, and speech acts expressing a negative attitude to self and third party peak in the spring. It was also...

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... here sets out the principles and effects of connected text. Through his pri- mary focus on the language of advertising, Cook highlights many important areas of text and discourse study. He also ... as this one, the reac- tion would be to try to do so. As Leech (1981: 7) puts it: ‘a speaker of English faced with absurd sentences will strain his interpretative faculty to the utmost to read...

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... conducting English language studies. One point which Dörnyei makes early on when talking in general terms about the social sciences is abso- lutely crucial to your own study of the English language: ... researching people, and therefore any study you conduct will always have to be selective. In any English language project that you devise you will need to decide upon the most relia...

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