Discovering Language: The Structure of Modern English

ISBN-13: 9781403912619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str.

Lesley Jeffries

Opis

Discovering language provides students with the basic knowledge they need for advanced study. Organized thematically, it can be used as a course text or help with specific aspects of language. Each section includes an introduction, worked examples, 'in context' sections relating the topic to real examples and suggestions for further reading.

Spis treści

Series Preface.- Introduction.- Phonetics.- Phonology.- Word.- Phrase.- Clause and Sentence.- Semantics.- Theory, Text and Context.- Exercises and Questions.- Appendix 1: Syntactic Tree Diagrams.- Bibliography.

O autorze

LESLEY JEFFRIES is Principal Lecturer in English at Huddersfield University, UK. She is author of Meaning in English and The Language of Twentieth Century Poetry, and series editor for Perspectives on the English Language.