These 48 lectures are your chance to relive the most groundbreaking moments in the fascinating story of the United States. They offer you a different perspective on the sweeping narrative of U.S. history. Spanning the arrival of the first English colonists to the chaos of the Civil War to the birth of the computer age and beyond, this lecture series is a captivating and comprehensive tour of those particular moments in the story of America, after which the nation would never be the same again.
Speech Acts in English: From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development
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Speech Acts in English: From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development
Speech acts, those actions carried out mainly by means of language, are used in English in a range of complex ways. However, they have rarely been covered in English as a foreign language (EFL) materials and textbooks. Bringing together current theories from pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, this book addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive model of directive speech acts and showing how to teach them to learners of English.
A plurale tantum is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for referring to a single object. (for example: jeans, dibs, means, clothes, binoculars, etc.)
Here you can find a comprehensive list of such nouns.
Linguistics is a unique program that integrates linguistic theory with experimental research. We have a strong and productive faculty who contribute to the local and global community and we are committed to providing a thorough and comprehensive education in linguistics. Our commitment to these values was supported by our most recent External Review, a comprehensive review of both our undergraduate and graduate degree programs..
This book is concerned with articulatory phonetics, meaning that the main purpose of this book is to teach the reader how to recognize, record, and reproduce the sounds of any language.
