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An accessible overview of the state of current knowledge about English as it is spoken in New Zealand.

English language --- Spoken English --- Variation --- History --- English language. --- English Language --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic languages --- Phonology --- English language - Spoken English - New Zealand --- English language - Variation - New Zealand --- English language - New Zealand --- English language - New Zealand - History --- Anglais (langue) --- Nouvelle Zélande

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Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English. It presumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology.Charles Kreidler describes the principal varieties of English in the world today. Whilst concentrating on the phonological elements they share, the author sets out specific differences as minor variations on a theme. Although theoretically orientated towards generative phonology, theory is minimal and the book is clear, comprehensive and accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistic

Phonetics --- English language --- Anglais (Langue) --- Spoken English --- Variation --- Phonology --- Anglais parlé --- Phonologie --- Linguistics --- -English language --- -Linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Germanic languages --- Languages. --- English Language --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Spoken English. --- Variation. --- Linguistics. --- Anglais parlé --- Colloquial English --- Dialects --- Phonology. --- English language. --- English language - Spoken English --- English language - Variation

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The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate how Cognitive Grammar (CG) can be employed in the foreign language classroom with a view to aiding learners in better understanding the complexities of English grammar. Its theoretical part provides a brief overview of the main tenets of Cognitive Grammar as well as illustrating how the description of English tense and aspect can be approached from a traditional and a CG perspective. The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to compare the effects of instruction utilizing traditional pedagogic descriptions with those grounded in CG on the explicit an implicit knowledge of the Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses. The book closes with the discussion of directions for further research when it comes to the application of CG to language pedagogy as well as some pedagogic implications.

English language --Spoken English -- Study and teaching. --- English language --Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Cognitive grammar. --- English language --- Grammar. --- Tense. --- Aspect. --- Cognitive linguistics --- Verbal aspect --- Analysis and parsing --- Diagraming --- Linguistics. --- Applied linguistics. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Verb --- Composition and exercises --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Linguistics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative

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This is the first book to carefully analyze the linguistic conventions associated with Irish English folklore. Other books have studied linguistics in this language variety by studying letters, and all have ignored the use of folklore in constructing language conventions. This is the first book to discuss how peasants played a role in the construction of the Irish English languages.

English language -- 19th century -- History. --- English language -- Foreign elements -- Irish. --- English language -- Ireland -- Grammar. --- English language -- Ireland -- History. --- English language -- Spoken English -- Ireland. --- English language --- Irish language --- Languages in contact --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Language --- Areal linguistics --- Erse language --- Gaelic language, Irish --- Irish Gaelic language --- Goidelic languages --- Germanic languages --- History --- Spoken English --- Grammar --- Foreign elements --- Irish --- Influence on English --- Dialects --- Ireland --- Civilization --- Irish Free State

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Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the – often contrasting – theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. It covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its empirical orientation: Most contributions are based on data from experiments or corpora. Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the – often contrasting – theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. The initial theoretical section contains, among others, two contributions presenting diametrically opposed analyses of the syntax of parenthetical verbs. Although (synchronic) syntax pervades the volume, other analytical levels and approaches are also given weight: The second section provides insights into the historical and ontogenetic development of parenthetical verbs, while the third section deals with prosody and prosody-syntax or prosody-semantics mappings. The volume covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Turkish), some of which are rarely taken into consideration when dealing with parentheticals. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its strong empirical orientation: With few exceptions, the contributions are based on data from experiments or from corpora (historical, contemporary, diachronic, synchronic, oral, written, child, adult).

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Parenthetical constructions. --- Verbals. --- Verb. --- English language -- Parenthetical constructions. --- English language -- Spoken English. --- English language -- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Parenthetical constructions. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Parenthetical constructions --- Verbal phrase --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Parenthesis (Rhetoric) --- Parenthetical constructions (Grammar) --- Rhetoric --- Grammar, Comparative --- Constituent sentence --- Embedded clause --- Inserted clause --- Syntax --- Language and languages. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Verb --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Comment Clauses. --- Discourse Markers. --- Parenthetical Verbs. --- Reporting Clauses.