TY  - BOOK
AU  - Penhallurick,Robert J.
TI  - Studying the English language
SN  - 9780230200142
AV  - PE1072 .P44 2010
U1  - 420.9 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire [England], New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - English language
KW  - History
N1  - 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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