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Using English Words
Corson, P. (The Ontario Institute For Studies In Education, Toronto, Canada)
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Description for Using English Words
Paperback. Drawing on theory and research from discursive psychology and the sociology of language, this interdisciplinary study examines the impact that the life histories of people can have on their vocabulary. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFD; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 760.
Using English Words examines the impact that the life histories of people have on their vocabulary. Its starting point is the taken-for-granted fact that the vocabulary of English falls into two very different sections. Randolph Quirk mentions this striking incompatibility between the Anglo Saxon and the Latinate elements in English: "the familiar homely-sounding and typically very short words" that we learn very early in life and use for most everyday purposes; and "the more learned, foreign-sounding and characteristically rather long words" (1974, p. 138). It is mainly the second type of word that native speakers start learning relatively late in ... Read more
Using English Words examines the impact that the life histories of people have on their vocabulary. Its starting point is the taken-for-granted fact that the vocabulary of English falls into two very different sections. Randolph Quirk mentions this striking incompatibility between the Anglo Saxon and the Latinate elements in English: "the familiar homely-sounding and typically very short words" that we learn very early in life and use for most everyday purposes; and "the more learned, foreign-sounding and characteristically rather long words" (1974, p. 138). It is mainly the second type of word that native speakers start learning relatively late in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792337119
SKU
V9780792337119
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99-15
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