English is Context
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Release : 2021-01-18
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ISBN : 9783125017429
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Release : 2021-01-18
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ISBN : 9783125017429
Author : Joan Cutting
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0748699287
This book covers the relevance of theories on language analysis to TESOL, showing students how to understand and evaluate TESOL methodology, curriculum, and materials in terms of theories including conversation structure, ideology and power.
Author : Ann Hewings
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415310819
Grammar and Context: considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts - including socio-cultural, situational and global influences includes a range of different types of grammar - functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptive explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speeches gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: David Crystal, M.A.K. Halliday, Joanna Thornborrow, Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey. The accompanying website to this book can be found at http: //www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415310814/
Author : Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1350308080
The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguistics. Written by leading academics in the field, this text offers a firm grounding in linguistics and includes engaging insights into current research. It covers all the key areas of linguistic analysis, including phonetics, morphology, semantics and pragmatics, and core domains of study, comprising the history of the English language, regional and social variation, style and communication and interaction. Fresh material on research methods outlines key areas for consideration when carrying out a research project, and provides students with the framework they need to investigate linguistic phenomena for themselves. This is an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students on English language and linguistics degree programmes. New to this Edition: - Seven new chapters covering topics such as second language acquisition, corpus linguistics and research methods - A number of chapters have been substantially revised, including those on World Englishes, Literacies in Cyberspace and TEFL, TESOL and Linguistics - Fully updated throughout to reflect the latest advances in the field
Author : Karen M. Ross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1479854808
An essential handbook for international lawyers and students Focusing on vocabulary, Essential Legal English in Context introduces the US legal system and its terminology. Designed especially for foreign-trained lawyers and students whose first language is not English, the book is a must-read for those who want to expand their US legal vocabulary and basic understanding of US government. Ross uses a unique approach by selecting legal terms that arise solely within the context of the levels and branches of US government, including terminology related to current political issues such as partisanship. Inspired by her students’ questions over her years of teaching, she includes a vast collection of legal vocabulary, concepts, idioms, and phrasal verbs and unpacks concepts embedded in US case law, such as how the US constitutional separation of powers may affect a court’s interpretation of the law. The handbook differentiates basic terms in civil and criminal cases and compares terms that may seem similar because of close spellings but in fact have different meanings. For instance, what is the distinction between “taking the stand” and “taking a stand?” What is the difference between “treaties” and “treatises”? Featuring illustrations and hands-on exercises, Essential Legal English in Context is a valuable self-study resource for those who want to improve their legal English terminology before entering a US law school, studying US law or government, or working as a seconded attorney to a US law firm. Instructors can use the handbook in an introductory US legal English course.
Author : Jason Stanley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191527556
Natural languages all contain constructions the interpretation of which depends upon the situation in which they are used. In Language and Context, Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. The reason we can so smoothly operate with sentences that can be used to express very different items of information, Stanley argues, is that there are linguistically mandated constraints on the effects of the situation on what we say. These linguistically mandated constraints are most evident in the cases of sentences containing explicit pronouns, such as 'She is a mathematician', where interpretation of the information expressed is guided by the use of the pronoun 'she'. But even when such explicit pronouns are lacking, our sentences provide similar cues to allow our interlocutors to determine the information expressed. We are, in the main, confident that our interlocutors will smoothly grasp what we say, because the grammar and meaning of our sentences encodes these constraints. In defending this theory, Stanley pays close attention to specific cases of context-sensitive constructions, such as quantified noun phrases, comparative adjectives, and conditionals. Philosophers and cognitive scientist have appealed to the dependence of what is intuitively said by a sentence on the situation in which it is uttered to argue against the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language. The theory developed in this book is a vigorous defence of the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language against these influential tendencies.
Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107141672
From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
Author : Sandra N. Elbaum
Publisher : Heinle ELT
Page : pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780357140253
The original contextualized approach brings grammar to life. Grammar in Context brings grammar alive through engaging and informative readings that are relevant to learners' lives. National Geographic photography and stories deliver real-world content to improve grammar awareness and retention. Students learn more, remember more, and use language more effectively when they learn grammar in context.
Author : Beverly Derewianka
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780190333881
Author : Edgar W. Schneider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521888468
A lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, setting a range of global varieties in their historical and social contexts.