Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... nature : the vocabulary of English , he says , contains thousands of words used in writing that have ' no real currency ' in speech ( they are in fact drawn from the elaborated vocabulary of standard literary English ) . As he is ...
... nature : the vocabulary of English , he says , contains thousands of words used in writing that have ' no real currency ' in speech ( they are in fact drawn from the elaborated vocabulary of standard literary English ) . As he is ...
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... nature of human language . As we shall see in Chapter 8 , this lack of knowledge may have unfortunate conse- quences in practical matters : e.g. in the validity of judgments made on the basis of some language assessment procedures . In ...
... nature of human language . As we shall see in Chapter 8 , this lack of knowledge may have unfortunate conse- quences in practical matters : e.g. in the validity of judgments made on the basis of some language assessment procedures . In ...
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... nature of communicative competence suggests that this conclusion is relevant also to the language behaviour of monolingual speakers . With this comment in mind , we turn now to a brief consideration of formal measures of language ...
... nature of communicative competence suggests that this conclusion is relevant also to the language behaviour of monolingual speakers . With this comment in mind , we turn now to a brief consideration of formal measures of language ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
Copyright | |
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