A Course Book in English Grammar: Standard English and the Dialects (Studies in English Language) - Hardcover

Freeborn, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333624920 ISBN 13: 9780333624920

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

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The study of language in written texts and transcripts of speech is helped by a student's ability to identify and describe those prominent features of the grammar which make one variety of English different from another. This book looks at many of the problems encountered by students and encourages them to find their own answers and to assess hypotheses about grammatical description. There are activities at each step, using authentic written and spoken data. The book has been revised and expanded for this edition, which contains additional chapters and materials. A new opening chapter discusses the concept of "grammatically correct English" and the differences between descriptive, prescriptive and proscriptive approaches to the writing of grammar books. The book is a systematic description of Standard English, and examples of contemporary spoken dialectal grammar are introduced and analyzed to illustrate the differences between standard and nonstandard usage.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0333624920
• ISBN 13: 9780333624920
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368