Author: Elaine Higgleton
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789810137274
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Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1194
ISBN-13: 9789861842684
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lisa Lim
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2004-12-23
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9027294801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the contributions in this volume not only provide comprehensive and systematic descriptions of the structural features characterising colloquial Singapore English of the young, native speaker of today, but also propose the likely substrate sources of these features through insightful linguistic and historical examination. Clearly illustrating the particular rules of grammar that characterise Singapore English as a variety in its own right, this volume presents its evolution as a perfectly natural linguistic phenomenon which is best understood within the multiethnic and multilingual society that Singapore is and has been for the past two centuries. Theoretical linguists, sociolinguists, dialectologists, variationists, typologists and creolists, as well as those involved in education and policy-making, should find this description relevant and vital.
Author: Editors of Chambers
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1002
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essential guide to English today
Author: Tom McArthur
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780859896207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this collection of articles, the author reflects on the nature of language, the art of lexicography and the developments in communication, the media and information technology in the late 20th century. The three main subjects looked at are: language at large, and particulary English, the most widely used language in the history of the world; the art and study of dictionaries and reference science, embracing all past, present and potential reference materials - from the "OED" to the "Yellow Pages"; and the processes through which communication, information and knowledge has evoloved - from cave art to the personal computer.
Author: Desmond Allison
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: 1998-09-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9813102942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The central place of “text” as a means of organising language in order to construct what people come to think of as “knowledge” is a phenomenon affecting all educators, students, and citizens of modern societies. This volume offers various voices and perspectives including those of Ron Carter and Michael Halliday on the role of text in education and society. The chapters on text in education explore some ways in which texts can create bonds or raise barriers between educational knowledge and common-sense knowledge, while the chapters on text in society focus on how personalities and societies are themselves constructed through texts. Learning to unpack texts, and to consider alternatives, is a crucial goal for education and growth, especially so in the context of fast-changing contemporary societies. This book should be of special interest to educators, students of language, and readers interested in the dynamic relationship between text, education and society.
Author: Phil Benson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-08
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1134599595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work. Using theoretical, historical and empirical analyses, Phil Benson shows how English dictionaries have filtered knowledge through predominantly Anglo-American perspectives. The book includes a major case study of the most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and its treatment of China.
Author: Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9789810137496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Beng Huat Chua
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789971692087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edition brings up to date a decade of research work developments of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, National University of Singapore, since the first volume was published in 1985. The state of the respective disciplines covered are reviewed in terms of notable theoretical and conceptual developments, major benchmarks during the past decade, and research lacunae that need to be addressed, as well as their substantive developments and contributions in the Singapore context and possible future directions, resulting in a collection of essays that places the Faculty's studies in an international comparative framework.