Author: Steven Brehe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940771496
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Brehe's Grammar Anatomy makes grammar accessible to general and specialist readers alike. This book provides an in-depth look at beginner grammar terms and concepts, providing clear examples with limited technical jargon. Whether for academic or personal use, Brehe's Grammar Anatomy is the perfect addition to any resource library.Features:Practice exercises at the end of each chapter, with answers in the back of the book, to help students test and correct their comprehensionFull glossary and index with cross-referencesEasy-to-read language supports readers at every learning stage
Brehe's Grammar Anatomy
Author: Steven Brehe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940771496
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Brehe's Grammar Anatomy makes grammar accessible to general and specialist readers alike. This book provides an in-depth look at beginner grammar terms and concepts, providing clear examples with limited technical jargon. Whether for academic or personal use, Brehe's Grammar Anatomy is the perfect addition to any resource library.Features:Practice exercises at the end of each chapter, with answers in the back of the book, to help students test and correct their comprehensionFull glossary and index with cross-referencesEasy-to-read language supports readers at every learning stage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940771496
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Brehe's Grammar Anatomy makes grammar accessible to general and specialist readers alike. This book provides an in-depth look at beginner grammar terms and concepts, providing clear examples with limited technical jargon. Whether for academic or personal use, Brehe's Grammar Anatomy is the perfect addition to any resource library.Features:Practice exercises at the end of each chapter, with answers in the back of the book, to help students test and correct their comprehensionFull glossary and index with cross-referencesEasy-to-read language supports readers at every learning stage
An anatomy of speech notions
Author: R. E. Longacre
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112329929
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
No detailed description available for "An anatomy of speech notions".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112329929
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
No detailed description available for "An anatomy of speech notions".
An Anatomy of Grammar
Author: Laura Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This textbook begins with the elemental building blocks of a clause and, through thirteen chapters, works toward a thorough understanding of the parts that make up English clauses and how clauses can be combined into quite complicated sentences. It aims to increase students' grasp not only of the language but also of how and why the English language works as it does. This book is not an ESL textbook. That is, it does not seek to teach non-native speakers a language they have not already confronted. Nor is it focused exclusively on fixing common errors in grammar. It is not organized around the fix-it topics that subdivide most handbooks or around the parts of speech that many students remember from elementary school instruction. Rather, it is designed to develop and build on the curiosity of college-level English speakers who desire a more thorough and systematic knowledge of the language they use already. Along the way, the book discusses issues of register, correctness, and style--as these discussions arise naturally from the topics studied. Special sections alert students to common errors and questions of usage, as well as to rhetorical issues related to writing and literature. A student who desires an introductory but thorough knowledge of English grammar will by the end of this book have a solid sense of how sentences--and their myriad and complicated parts--are assembled. Ideally, because of the gradual introduction of more overwhelming concepts, this knowledge will have been achieved without the paralyzing anxiety that often accompanies encounters with grammatical concepts. The book presents important concepts, challenges students to work through embedded exercises (the answers to which are included at the back of the book), and gradually builds toward more complex, nuanced discussions of sentence structure and style.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This textbook begins with the elemental building blocks of a clause and, through thirteen chapters, works toward a thorough understanding of the parts that make up English clauses and how clauses can be combined into quite complicated sentences. It aims to increase students' grasp not only of the language but also of how and why the English language works as it does. This book is not an ESL textbook. That is, it does not seek to teach non-native speakers a language they have not already confronted. Nor is it focused exclusively on fixing common errors in grammar. It is not organized around the fix-it topics that subdivide most handbooks or around the parts of speech that many students remember from elementary school instruction. Rather, it is designed to develop and build on the curiosity of college-level English speakers who desire a more thorough and systematic knowledge of the language they use already. Along the way, the book discusses issues of register, correctness, and style--as these discussions arise naturally from the topics studied. Special sections alert students to common errors and questions of usage, as well as to rhetorical issues related to writing and literature. A student who desires an introductory but thorough knowledge of English grammar will by the end of this book have a solid sense of how sentences--and their myriad and complicated parts--are assembled. Ideally, because of the gradual introduction of more overwhelming concepts, this knowledge will have been achieved without the paralyzing anxiety that often accompanies encounters with grammatical concepts. The book presents important concepts, challenges students to work through embedded exercises (the answers to which are included at the back of the book), and gradually builds toward more complex, nuanced discussions of sentence structure and style.
The Grammar of Discourse
Author: Robert E. Longacre
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489901620
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489901620
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.
The Anatomy of Language
Author: Marjorie Boulton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134998082
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments. This book provides much information and much material for profitable discussion, helping to make accessible what can be a highly academic subject comprehensible only to a minority. This book provides a highly valuable foundation for students of linguistics and will provide preparation for further study.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134998082
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments. This book provides much information and much material for profitable discussion, helping to make accessible what can be a highly academic subject comprehensible only to a minority. This book provides a highly valuable foundation for students of linguistics and will provide preparation for further study.
An Anatomy of Chinese
Author: Perry Link
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067681
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be aware. Link’s Anatomy of Chinese contributes to the debate over whether language shapes thought or vice versa, and its comparison of English with Chinese lends support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067681
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be aware. Link’s Anatomy of Chinese contributes to the debate over whether language shapes thought or vice versa, and its comparison of English with Chinese lends support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain.
Cunningham's Text-book of Anatomy
Author: Daniel John Cunningham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1632
Book Description
GRAMMAR OF MOTIVES
Author: KENNETH. BURKE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033018569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033018569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Syntactic Structures
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112316002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112316002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".
Content, Expression and Structure
Author: Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027230323
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form or expression as opposed to content. The book tries to illustrate why function and structure must be understood as mutually dependent in relation to language and why the most interesting aspect of language structure is the way it structures the content side of language. In this, the book represents a reaffirmation of traditional concerns in structural linguistics, especially with respect to the structural integrity of individual languages but with a reversal of traditional priority: structure is not autonomous, but must be understood on the basis of function. Without being hostile to typological and universal generalizations, the articles suggest that similarities between languages can only be responsibly discussed on the basis of an understanding that includes a respect for language differences. The book contains discussions of a number of different languages including Nahuatl, Danish Sign Language, French, and Tlapanec, and focuses on the way meaning is organized in the grammar of Danish. A final section sums up theoretical perspectives.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027230323
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form or expression as opposed to content. The book tries to illustrate why function and structure must be understood as mutually dependent in relation to language and why the most interesting aspect of language structure is the way it structures the content side of language. In this, the book represents a reaffirmation of traditional concerns in structural linguistics, especially with respect to the structural integrity of individual languages but with a reversal of traditional priority: structure is not autonomous, but must be understood on the basis of function. Without being hostile to typological and universal generalizations, the articles suggest that similarities between languages can only be responsibly discussed on the basis of an understanding that includes a respect for language differences. The book contains discussions of a number of different languages including Nahuatl, Danish Sign Language, French, and Tlapanec, and focuses on the way meaning is organized in the grammar of Danish. A final section sums up theoretical perspectives.