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Introducing English linguistics /
Are you looking for a genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad overview of the subject that sustains students' interest and avoids excessive detail? Introducing English Linguistics accomplishes this goal in two ways. First, it takes a top-down approach to languag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to language and linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Are you looking for a genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad overview of the subject that sustains students' interest and avoids excessive detail? Introducing English Linguistics accomplishes this goal in two ways. First, it takes a top-down approach to language, beginning with the largest unit of linguistic structure, the text, and working its way down through successively smaller structures (sentences, words, and finally speech sounds). The advantage of presenting language this way is that students are first given the larger picture - they study language in context - and then see how the smaller pieces of language are a consequence of the larger goals of linguistic communication. Second, the book does not contain invented examples, as is the case with most comparable texts, but instead takes its sample materials from the major computerised databases of spoken and written English, giving students a more realistic view of language. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511539237 0511539231 9780511650772 0511650779 9780511757822 0511757824 0511538405 9780511538407 1282391100 9781282391109 9786612391101 6612391103 1107195357 9781107195356 1316099261 9781316099261 0511646690 9780511646690 0511540078 9780511540073 |