A practical, insightful exploration of natural spoken English based on 20 varied authentic extracts. Exploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken English, designed for teachers and advanced learners of English for use...
Intended for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. This work provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s.
Introduces students to the main principles of language analysis, through real text examples. This book features contemporary examples of English in use. It emphasises on theoretical principles that ensures evenness of level.
Language use and language teaching. Summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing on spoken data and on the place of lexis in grammar and discourse.
A major reference grammar offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of spoken and written English based on real everyday usage. A major reference grammar from the world's leading grammar publisher. It offers clear explanations of spoken...
His Power-Not Mine is a practical guide to the child of God who is seeking to pursue the simplicity which is in Christ. You will find a fresh approach to winning life's daily battles in the power of the risen Christ, not in your own strength.
Telling the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to the present, this handbook guides the reader through the major writers, genres and developments in English writing over the past 40 years. It also offers notes on language issues, quotations from...
This textbook offers students practical experience of textual analysis focused on speech and writing. It combines practical activities with texts and analyzes the processes involved in writing and speaking as well as exploring written, spoken and mixed-mo...
This important book, with 32 chapters by leading figures in the field, is an up-to-date guide to the central areas of applied linguistics and language studies with particular reference to TESOL. It looks at the current state of TESOL as well as at what...