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Author: D. H. Howe Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780194343091 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 100
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A collection of stories, games, puzzles, and other exercises and activities designed to improve communication and listening skills for students of English as a second language.
Author: D. H. Howe Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780194343091 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
A collection of stories, games, puzzles, and other exercises and activities designed to improve communication and listening skills for students of English as a second language.
Author: Allan A. Metcalf Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618043620 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 228
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In short, delightful essays, a professor of English explains the key features that make American speech so expressive and distinct. With chapters on ethnic dialects and dialects in the movies, the author reveals the resplendence of one of our nation's greatest natural resources--its endless and varied talk.
Author: Walt Wolfram Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118391454 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 457
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The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text Features brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics, such as Levels of Dialect, Regional Varieties of English, Gender and Language Variation, The Application of Dialect Study, and Dialect Awareness: Extending Application, as well as new exercises with online answers Updated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions Written for students taking courses in dialect studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, and requires no pre-knowledge of linguistics Includes a glossary and extensive appendix of the pronunciation, grammatical, and lexical features of American English dialects
Author: Zoltan Kovecses Publisher: Broadview Press ISBN: 1551112299 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 362
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This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Author: Kenneth G. Wilson Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0585041482 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 501
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In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts—from oratorical speech to intimate, from formal writing to informal—and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate, and in which it is not. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English provides the answers to questions about American English the way no other guide can with: * an A–Z format for quick reference; * over five thousand entries, more than any other usage book; * sensible and useful advice based on the most current linguistic research; * a convenient chart of levels of speech and writing geared to context; * both descriptive and prescriptive entries for guidance; * guidelines for nonsexist usage; * individual entries for all language terms. A vibrant description of how our language is being spoken and written at the end of the twentieth century—and how we ourselves can use it most effectively—The Columbia Guide to Standard American English is the ideal handbook to language etiquette: friendly, sensible, and reliable.
Author: D. H. Howe
Author: D. H. Howe
Author: Hans Paul Guth
Author: Allan A. Metcalf
Author: Hans Paul Guth
Author: Hans Paul Guth
Author: Walt Wolfram
Author: Bill Bryson
Author: Zoltan Kovecses
Author: Kenneth G. Wilson
Author: Hans Paul Guth