Introdungcing English language part 48 potx

... of language globalization’ can be inves- tigated particularly well from a quantitative macro-perspective, determining for example how Global English impacts the acquisition and use of local languages ... manifestations in language- in-use is, in our view, rather one-sided. That is, people’s actual language behaviour is contingent, ‘imprecise’ and ephemeral, whereas the systemic features...

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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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... (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, has, since ... World Englishes varieties are currently thriving, particularly when varieties of Englishes are used as lingua francas, where individuals from different nation- alities come together an...

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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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... 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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... 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 l...

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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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... (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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... 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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