George Yule

This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language.

The Study of Language

H. G. Widdowson

This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.

Pragmatics

This new edition of The Study of Language incorporates many changes that reflect developments in language study over the past decade.

Maryann Overstreet

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.

The Forms and Functions of a New Linguistic Category

General Extenders

This book provides: detailed explanations, covering English grammar rules in depth, that takes your grammar knowledge to a much higher level ; practice activities to stretch your language skills ; extended texts for your analysis, reference and practice ; tasks that challenge you to work out the grammar rules for yourself, reactivating the grammar you know ; the exit test that shows if you are ready to take a higher-level exam ; and the Practice-Plus CD-ROM that gives you interactive exercises and tests.

With Answers. Advanced

Oxford Practice Grammar

The Religious Legislation of the Long Parliament, 1640-1647

Puritans in Politics

Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced is divided into 17 units which provide a review of the grammar of contemporary English. Within each unit there are separate sections on specific features e.g. Present Perfect or Past Simple.As well as the types of exercises you will be used to there are some exercises specifically designed for students who are becoming more advanced in English. Theseinclude: summary exercises, dictionary exercises, matching and editing activities.You can either start at the beginning and work through to the end or choose the order in which you want to study the grammar topics, perhaps starting with those that aregiving you problems.Two-page tests at the end of each unit or section mean you can see how much you have learned and decide if you need more practice.For those unsure of some of the terminology there is also a Glossary explaining the meaning of all the grammatical terms.

Advanced with Key

Gillian R. Brown

Gillian Brown

Brown Gillian

Gillian D. Brown

An exploration of how any language produced by man, spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose and within a context.

Discourse Analysis

The Study of Language is quite simply the best introduction to the field available today.

General extenders are phrases like 'or something', 'and everything', 'and things (like that)', 'and stuff (like that)', and 'and so on'. Although they are an everyday feature of spoken language, are crucial in successful interpersonal communication, and have multiple functions in discourse, they have so far gone virtually unnoticed in linguistics. This pioneering work provides a comprehensive description of this new linguistic category. It offers new insights into ongoing changes in contemporary English, the effect of grammaticalization, novel uses as associative plural markers and indicators of intertextuality, and the metapragmatic role of extenders in interaction. The forms and functions of general extenders are presented clearly and accessibly, enabling students to understand a number of different frameworks of analysis in discourse-pragmatic studies. From an applied perspective, the book presents a description of translation equivalents, an analysis of second language variation, and practical exercises for teaching second language learners of English.

H. H. Stern

Elaine E. Tarone

Hans Heinrich Stern

Hilde Stern

Professor Stern puts applied linguistics research into its historical and interdisciplinary perspective. He gives an authoritative survey of past developments worldwide and establishes a set of guidelines for the future. There are six parts: Clearing the Ground, Historical Perspectives, Concepts of Language, Concepts of Society, Concepts of Language Learning, and Concepts of Language Teaching.

Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Applied Linguistic Research

Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching

Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is typically dependent on successful acts of reference, whereby entities (human and non-human) are identified (by naming or describing), are located or moved relative to other entities (by giving instructions or directions), or are followed through sequences of locations and events (by recounting an incident or a narrative). These "activities" are examples of events that are more typically described as "tasks" in the area of second language studies. These might be real world tasks encountered in everyday experience or pedagogical tasks specifically designed for second language classroom use. This volume comprehensively documents and describes the veritable explosion of task-based research in language acquisition. In a succinct, yet easily accessible fashion, it presents the origins, principles, and key distinctions of referential communication research in first and second language studies, complete with exhaustive analyses and illustrations of different types of materials. The author also describes and evaluates different choices for using or modifying these materials, provides analytic frameworks for focusing on various aspects of the data elicited by these tasks, and includes an extensive bibliography plus an appendix showing original task materials.

Referential Communication Tasks

Teaching the Spoken Language is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author's important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. The authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of it is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language, and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue.

Teaching the Spoken Language

This book is intended for teachers of English.

A Guide to Explaining Grammar for Teachers of English as a Second Or Foreign Language.

Explaining English Grammar

Oxford Practice Grammar knows that students need different types of explanation and practice at each stage of their study. Advanced gives challenging practice activities and in-depth explanations. Great for classroom or self-study and it helps you prepare for standard exam questions asked in CAE, CPE, TOEFL, IELTS and other advanced-level exams.

Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced

References to the relevant explanations and examples in Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced to help with each exercise Helps prepare for CAE, CPE, TOEFL, IELTS and other advanced-level exams. Innovative practice such as dictionary exercises, matching exercises and editing exercises specially designed for high-level learners.

The right balance of English grammar explanation and practice for your language level

Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced Supplementary Exercises

Eric S. Nelson

A course text and self-study tool for advanced learners of English for academic purposes.

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