Contents: What is Language? Morphology: The Words of Language, The Sentence Patterns of Language, The Meaning of Language, The Sounds of Language, Phonology: The Sound Patterns of Language, Language...
Analysing English Sentences continues in this tradition, offering a well-structured introduction to English syntax and contemporary syntactic theory which is supported throughout with learning aids...
Contents: Introduction; The principles and methods of comparing and contrasting languages; Phonetic and phonological contrastive analyses; Lexical contrastive analysis; Grammatical contrastive...
Contents: Language and education; Second language learning; Language in British education; Literature and education; The politics of language teaching; Research and understanding.
This book, by one of the leading figures in applied linguistics, provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive treatment of the major issues. Its six chapters take the reader through the major tenets and...
Contents: the nature of language; the scope of linguistics; principles and levels of analysis; areas of enquiry: focus on form; areas of enquiry: focus on meaning; current issues.
Contents: definitions and background; deixis and distance; reference and inference; presupposition and entailments; cooperation and implicature; speech acts and events; politeness and interaction;...
This book provides a wide-ranging overview of the many and diverse issues in applied linguistics today. Leading specialists consider the relation of their own areas of enquiry both to professional...
This is a very practical and accessible book that offers a comprehensive overview of research methodology in applied linguistics by describing the various stages of qualitative and quantitative...