The Oxford History of English

Title: The Oxford History of English
Author(s): Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford
ISBN : 9780199249
Date: 2006
Pages: 498
Size: 3.2 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its position as the world's first language. In accounts made vivid with examples from an immense range of documentary evidence, including letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen experts describe the history of English in all its versions, written and spoken. They reveal the language's rich and protean variety over the centuries and chart the progress of all its versions, standard, regional, and international. With impeccable and approachable scholarship, they describe and explain its constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar. This is a book for everyone interested in the English language, present and past.

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Intercultural Communication: an Advanced Resource Book

Title: Intercultural Communication: an Advanced Resource Book
Author(s): Adrian Holliday, John Kullman and Martin Hyde
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2004
Pages: 250
Size: 1.89 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Routledge Applied Linguisticsis a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. [+/-]

Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application. Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own responses. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader'sunderstandingstrengthened by tasks and follow-up questions.

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Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

Title: Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
Author(s): Jack C. Richards and Richard Schmidt
Publisher: Pearson Education
Date: 2002; 3rd Edition
Pages: 606
Size: 1.94 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This dictionary includes the core vocabulary of both language teaching and applied linguistics. The field of language teaching is concerned with the development of language programmes and courses, teaching methodology, materials development, second language acquisition theory, testing, teacher training and related areas. The dictionary includes terms from the following areas of study in the field of language teaching: [+/-]

• teaching methods and approaches in language teaching
• curriculum development and syllabus design
• second language acquisition
• the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing
• computer assisted language learning
• teacher education in language teaching
• English grammar and pronunciation
• language testing, research methods, and basic statistics

The dictionary also includes terms from the field of applied linguistics. For the purposes of this book, “applied linguistics” refers to the practical applications of linguistics and language theory and includes terms from the following areas of study:
• introductory linguistics, including phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics and morphology
• discourse analysis
• sociolinguistics, including the sociology of language and communicative competence
• psycholinguistics, including learning theories

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Vocabulary Building with Antonyms, Synonyms, Homophones and Homographs

Title: Vocabulary Building with Antonyms, Synonyms, Homophones and Homographs
Level: Beginner
Author(s): Jo Ann Gordon
Publisher: Super Duper Publications
Date: 1999
Pages: 195
Size: 6.45 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good, photocopiable
Language: English

Do your students have trouble with words that sound alike but have different meanings? Do they use the wrong meaning for words that are spelled alike? This special 190-page reproducible is just what you need. It has: [+/-]

• Separate sections devoted to Antonyms (opposites), Synonyms (words with similar meanings), Homophones (sound-alike words, spelled differently with different meanings) and Homographs (spelled-alike words with different meanings).

• 50 word-pairs for Antonyms, Homophones and Homographs, and 50 Synomyns.

• Ten fun lessons for each word pair including "Which Homophone Is It?," "Name That Synonym," and much more.

• Answer key and parent letter.

• Ideal for school or home practice.

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Painless Spelling

Title: Painless Spelling
Level: ages 9-12
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Podhaizer, M.Ed.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Date: 1998
Pages: 267
Size: 2.07 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Learning to spell words properly is never likely to be entirely painless, but this book certainly tries to make the learning process more enjoyable than do traditional programs. Written for a teen and adult audience, humor, cartoon illustrations, and a variety of exercises make it user friendly. [+/-]

While the author does arrange chapters under structural headings (e.g., “letter patterns,” “vowel sounds,” “syllable junctures,” and “compound words”), the presentation tends toward curious and unusual spellings at least as often as it deals with the most-commonly encountered words.

It does ask the reader to look for patterns and think about spelling relationships, all of which help people to become better spellers. Also on the helpful side are chapters on affixes and Greek and Latin roots.

On the other hand, many exercises instruct the reader to think of words containing particular elements—exercises that might be fun for the “wordsmith” with a good vocabulary, but frustrating for those lacking those talents. Overall, the exercises provide a good deal of challenging work. Answer keys are included at the end of each chapter.

Painless Spelling should be very useful for those seeking a non-traditional approach to spelling for teens. Because the writing style of the book itself is fairly adult, I would narrow the audience to those with good reading skills.

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English Grammar: A University Course, 2nd Edition

Title: English Grammar: A University Course
Author(s): Angela Downing and Philip Locke
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2005, 2nd Edition
Pages: 640
Size: 2.23 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This new edition of an award winning title has been thoroughly updated to include many new entries and examples of language in use. Presenting a complete course on English grammar, this book is essential reading for non-native speakers of English. [+/-]

This award-winning grammar course book provides the basis for linguistic courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. Accessible and reader-friendly throughout, key features include:
• chapters divided into modules of class-length materials
• each new concept clearly explained and highlighted
• authentic texts from a wide range of sources, both spoken and written, to illustrate grammatical usage
• clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and student revision

About the author
Angela Downing is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Linguistics (English Philology I) at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

The late Philip Locke taught at the Institute of Modern Languages and Translation at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

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Words and Worlds: World Languages Review

Title: Words and Worlds: World Languages Review
Author(s): Fèlix Martí, Paul Ortega, Itziar Idiazabal and more
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 2005
Pages: 357
Size: 2.95 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: English

World Languages Review aims to examine the sociolinguistic situation of the world: to describe the linguistic diversity that currently characterizes humanity, to evaluate trends towards linguistic uniformity, and to establish a set of guidelines or language planning measures that favour the weaker or more endangered linguistic communities, so that anyone engaged in language planning -government officials, institution leaders, researchers, and community members- can implement these measures.

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The Linguistics Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition

Title: The Linguistics Encyclopedia
Author(s): Kirsten Malmkjaer
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2004, 2nd Edition
Pages: 687
Size: 4.79 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Linguistics Encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised and updated and a substantial new introduction, which forms a concise history of the field, has been added. The entries of the encyclopedia are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced, and include suggestions for further reading. [+/-]

New entries include:
• Applied Linguistics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Forensic Linguistics
• Contrastive Linguistics and Cross Linguistic Studies.

Substantially revised entries include:
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Genre analysis
• Psycholinguistics
• Language Acquisition
• Morphology
• Generative Phonology
• Grammatical models and theories
• Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis.

For anyone with an academic or professional interest in language, The Linguistics Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference tool.

About the Author
Dr Kirsten Malmkjaer is Curriculum Leader for the MA Theory and Practice of Translation at the University of Middlesex.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Politics

Title: The Language of Politics
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Adrian Beard
Publisher: Routledge
Date: December 1999
Pages: 134
Size: 2.12 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Language of Politics:
• examines how both politicians and commentators describe political stances
• explores some of the most common linguistic features to be found in political speeches
• analyses electioneering through various written texts including manifestos, posters and pamphlets
• looks at how politicians answer questions both in the media and in parliament
• includes examples of political discourse from Britain, America and Australia
• has a comprehensive glossary of terms. [+/-]

About the author
Adrian Beard is Head of English at Gosforth High School in Newcastleupon-Tyne and Principal Moderator at the Northern Examining and Assessment Board for A-Level English Literature. His previous publications include The Language of Sport (1998) for the INTERTEXT series.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Websites

Title: The Language of Websites
Level: Intertext
Author(s): Mark Boardman
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2004
Pages: 133
Size: 7.14 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. [+/-]

The Language of Websites:
• explores the ways in which websites use and present language
• covers many different types of web-based interaction, from buying online and auction sites, to search engines, email links and chatrooms
• considers the structures of language online, such as audience interaction and how hypertext alters narrative structure
• features a full glossary, which assumes very little prior knowledge and
includes linguistic, ICT and media terminology
• is accompanied by a supporting website at http://markboardman.com

About the Author
Mark Boardman is Head of Media at South Craven School, Keighley, Yorkshire, UK. He is an experienced teacher, having taught Advanced English Language, English Literature and Media Studies for many years and has been a Senior Examiner. He also founded and runs The English Language List, an email discussion and support group for teachers of English Language.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Humour

Title: The Language of Humour
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Alison Ross
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 1998
Pages: 129
Size: 1.43 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Language of Humour:
• examines the ways that humour is created in both spoken and written language
• explores the relationship between humour and social attitudes; the status of the targets of humour, the joke tellers and the audience
• focuses on the social aspects of humour, and asks what it contributes to current debates on ‘political correctness’ and censorship [+/-]

• analyses a rich variety of humorous text examples, from the classics of Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde to the contemporary sketches of French and Saunders, Eddie Izzard, Victoria Wood, Reeves and Mortimer, the cartoons of Gary Larson, and the sitcom Friends

About the author
Alison Ross is a visiting lecturer at Leeds University and Sheffield Hallam University. She is a senior examiner and moderator for the NEAB English Language A Level.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Children

Title: The Language of Children
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Julia Gillen
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2003
Pages: 112
Size: 2.40 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. [+/-]

The Language of Children:
• focuses on the language produced by children, and includes a wide variety of authentic data, from records of children’s first words to emails
• introduces the student to ways of analysing data, from multimodal texts to transcripts of talk during play
• explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities, including deaf and bilingual children
• reviews key theories of language acquisition
• provides a historical overview of the subject
• is user-friendly and accessible, and provides a full glossary
• suggests significant sources for further study

About the author
Julia Gillen is a Lecturer in Applied Language Studies at the Open University, UK.

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Intertext Series: The Language and Region

Title: The Language and Region
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Joan C. Beal
Publisher: Routledge
Date: April 2006
Pages: 131
Size: 1.15 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

Language and Region:
• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry
• outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar [+/-]

Affording hands-on practical experience of textual analysis, this book is essential reading for students of English language studies.

About the author
Joan C. Beal is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in dialectology and the recent history of English.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Magazines

Title: The Language of Magazines
Level: A-Level and beginning undergraduate students
Author(s): Linda McLoughlin
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2000
Pages: 160
Size: 9.41 Mb
Format: .html
Quality: High
Language: British English

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge INTERTEXT series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on magazines. Written in a clear, user-friendly style by an experienced teacher, it combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further reading. It can be used individually or in conjunction with the series core textbook, Working with Texts: A core book for language analysis. [+/-]

Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, The Language of Magazines:
• shows how linguistic techniques such as puns and presuppositions are used by magazines to capture our attention
• examines how image and text combine to produce meaning
• discusses how ideological messages are conveyed
• analyses how gender is constructed through language
• looks at how magazines relate to culture
• explores a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Bliss, Diva, FHM, Sugar and Viz

About the author
Linda McLoughlin is a part-time lecturer in English Language at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancashire. She has designed and taught BA and MA courses in English Language, specialising in language and gender.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Drama

Title: The Language of Drama
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Keith Sanger
Series: Intertext
Publisher: Routledge
Date: August 2000
Pages: 113
Size: 2.65 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This book is about the critical strategies that can be used to understand the dynamic processes involved in writing, reading, analysis, rehearsal, production, and reception of drama in both the classroom and the professional theater. [+/-]

The Language of Drama:
• applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays, ranging from Shakespeare to Stoppard, Coronation Street to The Archers
• is written in a clear, user-friendly style by a practising teacher
• is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned artwork by a Viz cartoonist
• combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further activities

About the Author
Keith Sanger is Lecturer in English and Drama at New College (VI Form), Pontefract, and a team leader for AQA A-Level English Language.

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Blooming English

Title: Blooming English: Observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English language
Author(s): Kate Burridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0521548328
Date: 2004
Pages: 247
Size: 1.24 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

English is a most creative, changeable and imaginative language. Some words are invented to meet temporary needs and are quickly discarded; others carry meanings hundreds of years old. Language fascinates us, and we spend a lot of time playing with it, creating everything from puns, riddles and secret languages to wonderful prose and poetry. We also worry about it a great deal, looking up and checking words in dictionaries and usage guides, and arguing about definitions. [+/-]

This book celebrates our capacity to play with language, as well as examining the ways we use it: in slang and jargon, swearing, speaking the unspeakable, or concealing unpleasant or inconvenient facts. It is a book for browsing, for finding intriguing snippets about language, history and social customs, and a formidable weapon in word games.

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TRUE TO FORM: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

Title: TRUE TO FORM: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English
Author(s): Christine Gunlogson
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2003
Pages: 117
Size: 2.36 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences: 1) It's raining? 2) It's raining. The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall. Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the meaning and use of both kinds of sentences must be understood in terms of the meaning of their defining formal elements, namely declarative sentence type and rising versus falling intonation. [+/-]

Gunlogson supports that claim through an investigation of the use of declaratives as questions. On one hand, Gunlogson demonstrates that rising and falling declaratives share an aspect of conventional meaning attributable to their declarative form, distinguishing them both from the corresponding polar interrogative (Is it raining?) and constraining their use as questions. On the other hand, since (1) and (2) constitute a minimal pair, differing only in intonation, systematic differences in character and function between them--in particular, the relative "naturalness" of (1) as a question compared to (2) --must be located in the contrast between the fall and the rise.

To account for these two sets of differences, Gunlogson gives a compositional account of rising and falling declaratives under which declarative form expresses commitment to the propositional content of the declarative. Rising versus falling intonation on declaratives is responsible for attribution of the commitment to the Addressee versus the Speaker, respectively. The result is an inherent contextual "bias" associated with declaratives, which constitutes the crucial point of difference with interrogatives. The compositional analysis is implemented in the framework of context update semantics (Heim 1982 and others), using an articulated version of the Common Ground (Stalnaker 1978) that distinguishes the commitments of the individual discourse participants.

Restrictions on the use of declaratives as questions, as well as differences between rising and falling declaratives as questions, are shown to follow from this account. Gunlogson argues that neither rising nor falling declaratives are inherently questioning--rather, the questioning function of declaratives arises through the interaction of sentence type, intonation, and context.

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Word-Formation in English: Textbooks in Linguistics

Title: Word-Formation in English: Textbooks in Linguistics
Author(s): Ingo Plag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2002
Pages: 265
Size: 1.34 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This textbook provides an accessible int roduction to the study of word-formation, focussing specifically on English. Assuming no prior Linguistic knowledge, Ingo Plag explains the fundamentals of word-formation, showing how morphemes - the elements of a word's internal structure - can function both to relate words to other words, and to create new words. [+/-]

Students are encouraged to undertake their own morphological analyses of English words, and are familiarised with the methodological tools to obtain and analyse relevant data. Word-Formation in English will be welcomed by all students of English Language and Linguistics.

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The Linguistics Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition

Title: The Linguistics Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition
Edited by: Kirsten Malmkjær
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2003
Pages: 687
Size: 4.79 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume Encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The seventy nine articles provide in-depth coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field, extensively cross-referenced so the reader can see how areas interrelate. Including a substantial introduction which provides a potted history of linguistics and suggestions for further reading, this is an indispensable reference tool for specialists and non-specialists alike.

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Focus Structure in Generative Grammar (Linguistics Today)

Title: Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An Integrated Syntactic, Semantic Intonational Approach (Linguistics Today)
Author(s): Carsten Breul
Publisher: John Benjamins
Date: 2004
Pages: 433
Size: 2.05 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. [+/-]

This claim is discussed in great detail with respect to syntax, intonation and semantics within the framework of the Minimalist Program. The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in great detail with respect to syntax, intonation and semantics within the framework of the Minimalist Program.

Contents
Abbreviations
I. Introduction and overview
II. The syntactic framework and the FocP-hypothesis
III. A review of previous work
IV. Information structure and focus structure
V. Features, checking theory and semantic implications
VI. Intonational aspects of the FocP-hypothesis
VII. FocP-related English syntax
VIII. Semantic issues related to the FocP-hypothesis
IX. Aspects of the syntax of languages other than English
X. Summary and general conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix: Schematic F0 contours
Name Index
Subject Index

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