Понятная и полезная книга для всех тех, кто хочет разобраться в английской пунктуации. Это не справочник, это увлекательная и интересная книга! Кто бы мог подумать, что книга о пунктуации, может вызвать такую сенсацию? Это энергичный и остроумный учебник, небольшого объема, который стал в Великобритании бестселлером №1. Учебник, который учит любить и бережно относиться к пунктуации. Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation?
Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. Combining theory and practice it covers a wide range of material in a lively and accessible style. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data. Working with Spoken Discourse is divided into three sections.
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction is unlike any other
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formal/mathematical skills, but assuming no particular previous
background, this book focuses on the development of precisely
formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested.
The book begins with the inadequacy of context-free phrase structure
grammars, motivating the introduction of feature structures, types and
type constraints as ways of expressing linguistic generalizations. Step
by step, students are led to discover a grammar that covers the core
areas of English syntax that have been central to syntactic theory in
the last quarter century, including: complementation, control, 'raising
constructions', passives, the auxiliary system, and the analysis of
long distance dependency constructions. Special attention is given to
the treatment of dialect variation, especially with respect to African
American Vernacular English, which has been of considerable interest
with regard to the educational practice of American school systems.
The new and updated edition of this bestselling introductory textbook is a comprehensive overview of the field of second language acquisition. In an easy-to-read accessible style, it provides students with information about the scope of the field, but also provides background information on related areas such as first language acquisition. The book introduces students to current issues of data collection and data analysis, as well as provides an historical overview of the field, thus giving students context and perspective about how todayƒ?Ts issues arise from earlier approaches.
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The book covers a range of areas of second language research including sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic perspectives. It also includes a chapter on the lexicon and on instructed second language learning. The concluding chapter pulls the information in the previous chapters together into a coherent framework that challenges students to think about the field of second language acquisition as a whole.
The major objective of Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes is to sensitize users of English to its varieties across cultures, and to emphasize that effective communication among users of different Englishes is possible by cultivating an awareness of the variation in Englishes and their cultural, social, and ideational functions.
