Teaching and Researching Writing (2nd Edition) (Applied Linguistics in Action)
Part of the highly-regarded Applied Linguistics in Action series, Teaching and Researching: Writing, offers a clear, comprehensive overview of writing research and teaching. Ken Hyland, a widely published and highly experienced teacher of both Applied Linguistics and EFL, brings together the latest research and teaching practices in the field of writing in a highly readable, wide-ranging volume.
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and information-structural properties of arguments and the verb but also in adverbial properties.
Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England (Topics in English Linguistics)
he book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various types of relevant information: Alston's bibliography of 1965, showing that this source needs to be revised urgently; the recently published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues and library catalogues);
Lost English: Words and Phrases that Have Vanished from Our Language
In the last 30 years, a large number of once commonplace words, phrases, and expressions have disappeared without trace from common usage in the UK. And with them have gone a number of goods, services, and everyday objects that were once an important part of their everyday lives.
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights into who we are, how we think, and what we feel.
