Studying the English language / Rob Penhallurick.
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TextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Edition: second editionDescription: xv, 358 pages. : illustrations., maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780230200142
- 0230200141
- 9780230200159 (pbk.)
- 023020015X (pbk.)
- 420.9 22 P.R.S
- PE1072 .P44 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-339) and index.
Abbreviations .- List of Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Space: The Diversity of English.- Time: The History and Pre-History of English.- Contact: The Case of Middle English .- 'She Loves You. Yes! Yes! Yes! American English Inside Out.- English Across the World: History and Varieties.- Signs: The Semiotic View of Language.- Strange Orchestras: The Underlying Symbolic Structure of Languages.- Myth: Language and Reality.- Sex: Language and Gender.- Tyranny: Some Daring and Ingenious Escapes .- Telling Stories: The Structure of Discourse in English.- What's in a Norm? The Nature of Standard English.- Language with Attitude: Dialect, Accent and Identity .- Fixing: Language Planning and Regulation.- Slippage: Slips of the Tongue and Other Blunders .- Communication Breakdown: Modelling What Happens When We Communicate.- Noam Chomsky and the Generative Enterprise: Language as it is if You Don't Have To Bother Talking.- The Nature of Language: Linguistic Theory and the Question of Origins.- References for Examples.- Bibliography .- Webography.- Index.
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