Introdungcing English language part 30 ppsx

... 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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... (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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... 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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... 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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... 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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