[PDF] English But Not Quite eBook

Author : Erin Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 1784701912

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In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language. You'll discover why Americans give - and take - so many bloody compliments and never, ever say 'shall' (well hardly ever), as well as what the British really mean when they say 'proper', why they believe it is better to be bright than clever and how the word sorry has at least eight different meanings for them.

Author : Debra Ziegeler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027230927

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The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other categories, and the ways in which our knowledge of aspect acts as a primary semantic contributor to the creation of other basic verbal parameters such as tense and modality. This book aims to cross some of the categorial borders, using a collection of studies on the interfaces of English aspect with other grammatical domains. The studies in the book have been assembled in order to answer two central issues surrounding the nature of English aspect: the possibility of the historical co-existence of a perfective and imperfective grammatical distinction in English, and the derivation of modality as an inference arising out of specific conflicts and combinations of lexical and grammatical aspect. In answering these questions, a data-driven, rather than a theory-driven approach is favoured, and the general principles of Gricean pragmatics and grammaticalisation are applied to a wide range of empirical sources to propose alternative explanations to some long-established problems of English historical linguistics and semantics.

Author : Henry Widdowson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194374453

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This text goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a foreign language. It looks at different attitudes to English teaching, and critically examines proposals for course content.

Author : Elliott Schimmel
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620236613

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William Hayden English of Indiana, congressman from 1853–1861, ended his official political career one and a half months before the attack on Fort Sumter. Though his name may not be as well known as other antebellum historical figures, he actively and influentially participated in all the major political events of the great drama that culminated in the most devastating war in American history. While this book is specifically a close analysis of one antebellum politician, it also acts as a comprehensive study by which one may examine not only the perspective and struggles of a single congressman, but also the contextual political environment that surrounded America’s descent into the great tragedy of the Civil War.