Introdungcing English language part 49 docx

... practice and language, with the existence of language representing a quantum leap in the human potential for practice in the world. Language as a cultural emergent property The interplay of language ... counter- part) ; and finally, language is itself a practice, capable of enabling people to act upon and modify the world (we do things with language) , as well as to act upon themsel...

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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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... 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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... approaches to language variation and language change. These sub-disciplines include, amongst others: language and ethnicity, language and gender, language and age, multilingualism, language planning ... spread of English as an inter- national language, initially highlighted in A8. The expansion of different varieties of Englishes around the world has been intensified by Englis...

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... speakers of other varieties of English. [. . .] English as an international language or World Englishes? The political debate over the spread of English centres around two questions: (1) is it ... offer access to British English? Hence British Councils across the world have established English language schools. These schools promote a British or native speaker model and language...

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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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... of inflections than do their English counterparts, but overall Hungarian children match their English- speaking peers pretty much equally in language competence and per- formance. Within English- speaking ... capacity for language (either one or several languages), the child’s brain begins to switch off its acquisition capability. From this critical age point, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 27 any...

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