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Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
Anne Lobeck
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Description for Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
Paperback. An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose. It goes a step further than most books on grammar by providing an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and current debates about grammar, and how we define, discuss, and approach it. Num Pages: 298 pages, colour tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 244 x 13. Weight in Grams: 586.
An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose. It goes a step further than most books on grammar by providing an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and current debates about grammar, and how we define, discuss, and approach it.
- Presents a novel, inquiry-based approach to understanding speakers' unconscious knowledge of English grammar
- Makes lucid connections, when relevant, with current linguistic theory
- Integrates language change and variation into the study of grammar
- Examines historical sources of socially evaluative perceptions of grammar, as 'good' or 'bad', and notions of language authority
- Provides syntactic ... Read more
- Explores some of the current controversies about grammar teaching in school and the role of Standard English in testing and assessment
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
585g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405159944
SKU
V9781405159944
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99-50
About Anne Lobeck
Anne Lobeck is Professor of English and Linguistics at Western Washington University. She is author of Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing and Identification (1995) and Discovering Grammar: An Introduction to English Sentence Structure (2000), and is coeditor and co-author (with Kristin Denham) of several books, including Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education (2010). Kristin Denham ... Read more
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