| Description |
1 online resource (211 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Edition: The English Language |
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Routledge Library Edition: The English Language
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Preface; Dedication; Chapter One SOUND, SHAPE AND SENSE; 1.1 The study of language; 1.2 The isolated word; 1.3 Contexts; 1.4 Words and things; 1.5 Full and empty words; 1.6 Sound, shape and sense; 1.7 System; 1.8 Rules and descriptions; 1.9 Dialect and style; Chapter Two THE ENGLISH SOUND-SYSTEM; 2.1 Speech and writing; 2.2 The observation of sounds; 2.3 Speakers of English; 2.4 Making and hearing contrasts; 2.5 The phoneme; 2.6 Phonemic systems; 2.7 Sounds; 2.8 The vocal organs and the contrasts of speech |
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2.9 Notation: phonemics and phonetics2.10 Stress, pitch and length; 2.11 Syllables; 2.12 Vowels and consonants; 2.13 The English consonants; 2.14 The English simple vowels; 2.15 Cardinal vowels; 2.16 Diphthongs and semivowels; 2.17 The phonemes of RP: reference lists; 2.18 The stream of speech; Chapter Three SOUNDS AND THE LEARNER; 3.1 Learning the system: the native speaker; 3.2 Learning the system: the foreigner; 3.3 Sounds in combination; 3.4 Complementary distribution; 3.5 Variations; 3.6 The phoneme reconsidered; 3.7 Sound and spelling; 3.8 The Initial Teaching Alphabet |
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Chapter Four THE ORGANIZATION OF SPEECH4.1 Speech and writing; 4.2 The organization of speech; 4.3 The physical mechanisms; 4.4 The perception of prominence; 4.5 Speech rhythms; 4.6 Stress-contrasts; 4.7 Pitch; 4.8 Notation for stress and pitch; Chapter Five GRAMMATICAL PATTERNING; 5.1 The independence of grammar; 5.2 Jabberwocky; 5.3 The subject; 5.4 Sentence-components; 5.5 Immediate constituents; 5.6 Heads and modifiers; 5.7 Order; 5.8 Markers; 5.9 Concord; 5.10 Frames; 5.11 Grammar and the child; 5.12 The meaning of grammar; 5.13 Grammar and the teacher |
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Chapter Six THE WORD: FORMS AND FUNCTIONS6.1 The meaning of 'word'; 6.2 Free and bound forms; 6.3 The morpheme; 6.4 The forms of markers; 6.5 The grammar of the word; 6.6 Affixes and paradigms; 6.7 The classification of words; 6.8 Nouns; 6.9 Personal pronouns; 6.10 Number, gender and case; 6.11 Adjectives; 6.12 Adverbs; 6.13 Verbs; 6.13.1 Verbs and predication; 6.13.2 The verb: basic contrasts; 6.13.3 Verb-inflection; 6.13.4 Auxiliaries and clusters; 6.13.5 Shall and Will; 6.13.6 Priorities in teaching the verb; 6.14 Particles; Chapter Seven A SKETCH OF THE SENTENCE; 7.1 What is a sentence? |
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7.2 Statement, negation, question and command7.3 Transitive and intransitive patterns; 7.4 Linking or equational patterns; 7.5 Transitive patterns; 7.6 Patterns with Be; 7.7 A table of sentence-patterns; 7.8 Headed and non-headed groups; 7.9 Co-ordination and subordination; Chapter Eight A NOTE ON LEXICON; 8.1 Word and lexical item; 8.2 Meaning and the child; 8.3 Lexical sets; 8.4 Collocation; 8.5 Dictionary and thesaurus; 8.6 Teaching vocabularies; APPENDICES; A.A test in phonemics; B. The parts of speech in Jabberwocky; C. Periodicals and recordings; D. Answers to phonemics test |
| Summary |
First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research. It provides an introduction to the study of the English language for the first-year university student. It will also be invaluable to all those concerned with the teaching and learning of English as a foreign or second language, particularly the teacher in training and the university student |
| Notes |
E. Further reading and references |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317420651 |
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1317420659 |
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