How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction

Anne Curzan (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1292026529 / ISBN 13: 9781292026527

Published by Pearson, 2013

About this Item

How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction | Anne Curzan (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 568 S. | Englisch | 2013 | Pearson | EAN 9781292026527 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Pearson Studium im Verlag Pearson Benelux B.V. Zweigniederla, Sankt-Martin-Str. 82, 81541 München, buchhandel[at]pearson[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction
• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1292026529
• ISBN 13: 9781292026527
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 276W x 216H x 31D millimeters 276 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 31 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1390 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Schule & Lernen

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Synopsis

This accessible introduction to the structure of English, general theories in linguistics, and important issues in sociolinguistics, is the first text written specifically for English and Education majors. This engaging introductory language/linguistics textbook provides more extensive coverage of issues of particular interest to English majors and future English instructors. It invites all students to connect academic linguistics to the everyday use of the English language around them. The book's approach taps students' natural curiosity about the English language. Through exercises and discussion questions about ongoing changes in English, How English Works asks students to become active participants in the construction of linguistic knowledge.

From the Back Cover

On the cover of this book, you’ll find many questions that you may have asked and wondered about the answers.  How English Works addresses those questions while it introduces you to the structure of English, general theories in linguistics, and important issues in sociolinguistics.  As an English or Education major, or as a student taking the course because the study of linguistics is of interest, you will connect academic linguistics to the everyday use of the English language around you.  The English language is always changing, which leads to new insights about how language, and the English language specifically, works. The authors revised this textbook to keep up both with linguistic scholarship and with the language itself.

 

New to This Edition:

 

·        New and updated material on electronically-mediated communication such as texting and the etiquette of instant messaging.

·        A major new section on literature and linguistics with tools for reading and analyzing literary works in relation to speech acts. 

·        A new explanation of where (some) contractions, like I’ll, fit into English word formation4

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·        An improved section on “what makes good writing.”