Colloquial English : Structure and Variation Paperback / softback
by Andrew (University of Essex) Radford
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and largely unreported types of clause structure. Andrew Radford debunks the myth that colloquial English has a substandard, simplified grammar, and shows that it has a coherent and complex structure of its own.
The book develops a theoretically sophisticated account of structure and variation in colloquial English, advancing an area that has been previously investigated from other perspectives, such as corpus linguistics or conversational analysis, but never before in such detail from a formal syntactic viewpoint.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/06/2018
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- ISBN:9781108448697
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108448697
