[PDF] Towards A Contextual Grammar Of English eBook

Author : Eugene Winter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1000156125

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This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Author : Goold Brown
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 3334 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"The Grammar of English Grammars" by Goold Brown. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Kitty Chen Dean
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780205307548

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English Grammar in Context takes a building block approach by covering words, phrases, clauses, and sentence structure in its first four parts. Sections on punctuation and errors follow for easy reference and flexible use. The book is distinguished by its constant emphasis on how grammar is applied to clear writing. Helpful workbook sections for the reader are always in the context of longer pieces of discourse and show that grammar always functions in a context beyond the sentence. Each chapter begins with a pretest to allow readers to assess their own ability on a particular topic. A progression of increasingly challenging exercises follows, and each chapter concludes with a summary. Anyone interested in perfecting their grammar knowledge and usage.

Author : Ann Hewings
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415310819

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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 : Kristin Bech
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110682567

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This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.

Author : Michael Vince
Publisher : Macmillan Elt
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2008-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781405070546

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This book is part of the Macmillan English Grammar In Context series, a three-level grammar practice series with a difference. Incorporating contextual examples in grammar practice activities, Macmillan English Grammar In Context is a grammar book that can be used in both the classroom and for self-study. Key Features:Grammar explanations with traditional practice activities and contextual examples Cross-curricular content areas include: literature science, geography, history and social sc

Author : Mike Scott
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027298491

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It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However, the nature of texts and text is still elusive: we know which forms are typically found in text but we do not yet have a full grasp of how they constitute its textuality, how they make a text “tick”. The twelve contributions to this volume show how texts across a wide range of text types hold together by different patterns of chunking and linking. The common purpose in all the contributions is to explore the nature of text patterning as the functional environment within which language operates.