English in use
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English in use
Longman, c1990
- : pbk
Available at 178 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [258]
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book will be of use to students, or someone whose first language is not English and aims to help them gain a deeper understanding of language, communication and the structure of English. It offers guidance on key issues of the National Curriculum for both teacher and student and contains ideas for development-work for teachers and students, based on the needs of the National Curriculum in English. The text emphasizes the role of standard English, as well as the effectiveness of English at its best in creative literature. It presents an authoritative account of the nature of English today, through its influence, the influences upon it, the subtleties of its vocabulary and the complexities of its grammar and includes exercises for older students.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Language at work and play: language functions "mere" talk
- languages compared
- sound symbolism. Part 2 Speaker and speech - which is in control?: language and attitude
- a help to thought
- making contact
- the value of vagueness. Part 3 Language, identity and nation: different identities
- national identity
- nation and language
- sharing a language
- sharing English. Part 4 Variation within English: some samples of English
- the nation of "institutionalization"
- factors in language variation
- native and non-native. Part 5 The spread of English: linguistic "reach"
- the rise of English
- cultural factors
- international communication
- the future. Part 6 Our ever-changing language: 20th-century changes
- standard of living
- the impact of youth
- the influence of America
- new sensibilities
- tolerance with frankness. Part 7 English and other languages: the influence of English
- influence and fashion
- Franglais
- resistance
- language purity?
- welcoming foreign influence
- the international trend.
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