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English language --- Pragmatics --- Conversation --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Spoken English --- Discourse analysis --- Terms and phrases --- 802.0-56 --- -English language --- -Pragmatics --- -Germanic languages --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Speech --- Talking --- Colloquial language --- Etiquette --- Oral communication --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Philosophy --- Conversation. --- Pragmatics. --- Discourse analysis. --- Spoken English. --- Terms and phrases. --- -Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Speech acts (Linguistics). --- -Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Colloquial English --- Germanic languages --- English language - Spoken English --- English language - Discourse analysis --- English language - Terms and phrases

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Why is the Isle of Dogs in the Thames called Isle of Dogs? Did King Canute’s men bring English usage back to Jutland? How can we find out where English speakers suck their breath in to give a short response? And what did the Brontës do about dialect and think about foreign languages? The answers are in this collection of empirical work on English past and present in honour of Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Professor of English Language at Stockholm University. The first five chapters report individual studies forming an overview of current issues in the study of Old and Middle English phonology, lexis and syntax. The next six look at Early Modern and Modern English from a historical point of view, using data from corpora, manuscript archives, and fiction. Two more look at the Old English scholar JRR Tolkien and his work. The remaining chapters discuss aspects of Modern English. Several use corpora to look at English usage in itself or in relation to Swedish, French, or Norwegian. The last three look at grammatical models, the pragmatics of second language use, and modern English semantics.

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While the literature on second language acquisition and use is overwhelmingly rich with respect to initial and intermediate stages of development, present knowledge of levels of ultimate attainment that are equal or close to that if native speakers has so far not been presented in a coherent manner. This is what the present volume aims to achieve. In addition to chapters that summarize what is currently known about the grammatical, lexical, and discourse features that continue to exhibit instability at the most advanced levels of second language development, the volume presents overviews of the incipient research on two unique learner populations, polyglots and employees in international call centres. Polyglots, defined as language users who are proficient in six or more second languages, may be considered second language learners par excellence. Call centre employees in economically less developed parts of the world are intriguing in how they cope with the high language proficiency requirements of their job. In conclusion, this book is relevant for all readers - both professionals and students - interested in the development of second language theory. For language teachers, the book provides insights that are profitable in classrooms for advanced learners.

Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Advanced L2 Proficiency. --- Exceptionality. --- International Call Centers. --- Polyglots.

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