English Language : Description, Variation and Context /: Description, Variation and Context. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak, Anthony McEnery, Francis Katamba.
• Editors: Culpeper, Jonathan; Kerswill, Paul; Wodak, Ruth; McEnery, Anthony; Katamba, Francis
• Contents: INTRODUCTION 1. Studying the English language ENGLISH: STRUCTURE 2. Phonetics 3. Phonology 4. Morphology: word structure 5. Grammar: words (and phrases) 6. Grammar: phrases (and clauses) 7. Grammar: clauses (and sentences) 8. Text linguistics 9. Semantics 10. Pragmatics ENGLISH: HISTORY 11. Standard English and standardization 12. Spelling 13. Phonological change 14. Lexical change 15. Semantic change 16. Grammatical change ENGLISH SPEECH: REGIONAL AND SOCIAL VARIATION 17. Regional variation in English accents and dialects 18. Language and social class 19. Language and ethnicity 20. Pidgins and creole Englishes 21. American English 22. World Englishes and English as a lingua franca 23. Language discourses: attitudes to diversity ENGLISH WRITING: STYLE, GENRE AND PRACTICE 24. Speech, writing and discourse type 25. Language in newspapers 26. Language in advertisements 27. Language in literature: stylistics 28. Literary practices 29. New technologies: literacies in cyberspace ENGLISH: COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION 30. Structures of conversation 31. Language, reality and power 32. Politeness in interaction 33. Gender and language 34. Language and sexuality 35. Bad language 36. Language and politics 37. Business communication ENGLISH: LEARNING AND TEACHING 38. First language acquisition 39. Second language acquisition 40. Languages and literacies in education 41. TEFL, TESOL and linguistics ENGLISH INVESTIGATING 42. Methods for researching English 43. The corpus method and English CONCLUSION 44. The English language: reflections.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (686 pages)
• Subjects: Grammar, syntax & morphology; Phonetics, phonology; Historical & comparative linguistics; Literary studies: general; Foreign Language Study -- German; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Morphology; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Phonetics & Phonology; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines -- General; Language: reference & general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350308084; 1350308080
• Related ISBNs: 9781137571823
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