Investigating Spoken English

by Štefan Beňuš
Investigating Spoken English
Author: Štefan Beňuš
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-04-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030543498
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Combining coverage of the key concepts and tools within phonetics and phonology with a systematic introduction to Praat, this textbook provides a lively and engaging 'way in' to the discipline. The author first covers the fundamentals of the articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech and introduces Praat as the main tool for examining and visualising speech. Next, the unit of analysis is gradually expanded (from syllables to words to turns and dialogues) and excerpts of real dialogues exemplify the core concepts for discovering how speech works. The final part of the book brings all the concepts and notions together with commentaries to the transcription of several short excerpts of dialogues. This book will be essential reading for students on undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology.

Authority in Language

by Lesley Milroy
Authority in Language
Author: Lesley Milroy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134687583
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This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity.

English in Speech and Writing

by Rebecca Hughes
English in Speech and Writing
Author: Rebecca Hughes
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780415124812
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Rather than giving the student a list of facts to assimilate this book offers a selection of standard and non-standard pieces of spoken and written English that the reader uses to formulate opinions on structure and lexis for further self-study.

Investigating English Discourse

by Ronald Carter
Investigating English Discourse
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113476975X
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In this challenging and at times controversial book, Ronald Carter addresses the discourse of 'English' as a subject of teaching and learning. Among the key topics investigated are: * grammar * correctness and standard English * critical language awareness and literacy * language and creativity * the methodological integration of language and literature in the curriculum * discourse theory and textual interpretation. Investigating English Discourse is a collection of revised, re-edited and newly written papers which contain extensive contrastive analyses of different styles of international English. These range from casual conversation to advertisement, poetry, jokes, metaphor, stories by canonical writers, public notices and children's writing. Ronald Carter highlights key issues for the study and teaching of 'English' for the year 2000 and beyond, focusing in particular on its political and ideological inflections. Investigating English Discourse is of relevance to teachers and students and researchers in the fields of discourse analysis, English as a first, second and foreign language, language and education, applied and literary linguistics.

Phonology and Second Language Acquisition

by Jette G. Hansen Edwards
Phonology and Second Language Acquisition
Author: Jette G. Hansen Edwards
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729139X
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This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each section unified by broad thematic content: Part I, “Theoretical Issues and Frameworks in L2 Phonology,” lays the groundwork for examining L2 phonological acquisition. Part II, “Second Language Speech Perception and Production,” examines these two aspects of L2 speech in more detail. Finally, Part III, “Technology, Training, and Curriculum,” bridges the gap between theory and practice. Each chapter examines theoretical frameworks, major research findings (both classic and recent), methodological issues and choices for conducting research in a particular area of L2 phonology, and major implications of the research findings for more general models of language acquisition and/or pedagogy.

Corpus Linguistics

by Douglas Biber
Corpus Linguistics
Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998-04-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780521499576
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An investigation into the way people use language in speech and writing, this volume introduces the corpus-based approach, which is based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer.

Investigating Spoken English

by Štefan Beňuš
Investigating Spoken English
Author: Štefan Beňuš
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9783030543501
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Combining coverage of the key concepts and tools within phonetics and phonology with a systematic introduction to Praat, this textbook provides a lively and engaging 'way in' to the discipline. The author first covers the fundamentals of the articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech and introduces Praat as the main tool for examining and visualising speech. Next, the unit of analysis is gradually expanded (from syllables to words to turns and dialogues) and excerpts of real dialogues exemplify the core concepts for discovering how speech works. The final part of the book brings all the concepts and notions together with commentaries to the transcription of several short excerpts of dialogues. This book will be essential reading for students on undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology. Štefan Beňuš is Assistant Professor at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. He completed his PhD at New York University and has previously worked at Columbia University and Brown University, USA. .

Exploring Spoken English

by Ronald Carter
Exploring Spoken English
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1997-03-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521568609
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A practical, insightful exploration of natural spoken English based on 20 varied authentic extracts. Exploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken English, designed for teachers and advanced learners of English for use in groups and for self-study. The material consists of 20 varied extracts of authentic spoken English drawn from the Cambridge University Press and University of Nottingham corpus of spoken English. Each unit contains an activity for the reader and a line-by-line commentary offering new insights into grammar, vocabulary and discourse patterns in the text. Audio CDs to accompany this book, available to purchase separately, contain all the extracts, some re-recorded for the purposes of clarity.

Speaking and Instructed Foreign Language Acquisition

by Mirosław Pawlak
Speaking and Instructed Foreign Language Acquisition
Author: Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 184769411X
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This book investigates various aspects of speaking in a foreign language. It is unique in considering this key skill from both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, and in focusing entirely on instructed foreign language contexts. The book demonstrates how theory and research can be translated into classroom practice.