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Strands 1 to 5 cover the structure of English to include sounds, words, meanings, grammar and discourse.. The aim of the early sections is to provide you with foundational skills and kno

This book covers the vast field of the English Language It is broadly arranged across three areas Strands 1 to 5 cover the structure of English to include sounds, words, meanings, grammar and discourse The aim of the early sections is to provide you with foundational skills and knowledge which you need to be able to produce your own analyses of the English language It is important to point out right at the very beginning that the English language is constantly changing and that it is strongly influenced by its political, social and economic circumstances The academic study of the English language is just as reliant on these conditions: almost everything we have necessarily presented as a fact is open to debate We hope that the book gives you the opportunity to engage in these debates

Strands 6 to 11 cover the main sub-disciplines within language and linguistics study: acquisition and processing, history and society, the spread of English globally and the close analysis of literary language Finally, the last two strands set out some methods

of linguistic study, and a theoretical review of the field Every strand is also covered

in further detail by a devoted book in the RELI series If you have read across a strand and found that you want to know more, the corresponding RELI book will pick you

up and take you further

The RELI books are also innovative textbooks in that they do not aim to replace your teacher or lecturer, but instead they offer both student and expert a resource for you

to adapt as you think most appropriate You will want to take issue with what we say, test out our assumptions, and – we hope – feel motivated to read and explore further We have always left space for tutors to mediate the material and for students

to explore beyond the book Especially in this coursebook introducing the study of the English language, there are many routes not taken which we have left for you to explore The English language in all its rich diversity reveals its deeper complexities and its endless fascination the more closely you look at it and think about it Welcome to the study of language

CONTENTS

5 Texts in action 139

4 Prefabricated expressions in spoken language (Cheshire) 214

6 Socialisation and grammatical development (Ochs and Schieffelin) 226

9 Social relationships and social practices (Milroy and Gordon) 245

10 The development of World Englishes (Kirkpatrick) 251

12 Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research (Dörnyei) 265

13 Researching ‘real’ language (Carter and Sealey) 271

INTRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT

1 Sounds

2 Words

3 Meanings

4 Grammar

5 Discourse

6 Acquisition

7 Processing

8 History

9 Society

References

Further

reading

Glossarial

Phonetics and phonology

2

Consonants and vowels

58

Morphology and lexicology

6

Lexical semantics

64

Semantics and pragmatics

10

Pragmatic principles

67

Grammatical parts

14

Syntax

73

Text and discourse

19

Conversation

79

Early language acquisition

23

Psycholinguistics

27

Literacy

84

Schemas

88

History of English

30

Standardisation

91

Sociolinguistics

35

Language attitudes

95

Topic

10 Globalisation World Englishes

39

Codification

99

11 Stylistics Stylistics

43

Stylistic analysis

103

12 Methods Methodological paradigms

48

Techniques and ethics

107

52

Language and thought

111

Performing accents

118

Glottalisation in Cardiff (Collins/Mees)

192

Word plays

125

The search for units of meaning (Sinclair)

200

Doing politeness

129

The speech acts of the in-group (Cutting)

206

Syntactic effects

135

Prefabricated expressions in spoken language (Cheshire)

214

Texts in action

139

Advertising discourse (Cook)

220

Learning to read

144

Socialisation and grammatical development (Ochs/Schieffelin)

226

Exploring the mind

150

Corrections

155

Identify yourself

161

Promoting perception (Field)

232

Lexical change (Smith)

239

Social relationships and social practices (Milroy/Gordon)

245

Influencing language

165

The development of World Englishes (Kirkpatrick)

251

Exploring literature

171

Transitivity as point of view (Simpson)

257

Collecting data

178

Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research (Dörnyei)

265

1 Sounds

2 Words

3 Meanings

4 Grammar

5 Discourse

6 Acquisition

7 Processing

8 History

9 Society

References

Further reading

Glossarial

10 Globalisation

11 Stylistics

12 Methods

13 Theory

Theory into practice

186

Researching ‘real’ language (Carter/Sealey)

271

Topic