Colloquial English : structure and variation

Author(s)

• Radford, Andrew

Bibliographic Information

Colloquial English : structure and variation

Andrew Radford

（Cambridge studies in linguistics, 158）

Cambridge University Press, 2018

• : hardback
• : pbk

Note

Paperback ed.: 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-328) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

• Prologue
• 1. Background
• 2. Topics
• 3. Complementisers
• 4. How come?
• Epilogue.

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Details

• NCID: BB26245365
• ISBN:
  • 9781108428057
  • 9781108448697
• LCCN: 2017058251
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, U.K.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 333 p.
• Size: 23-24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1074.7
  • DC23 : 425
  • NDC10 : 835.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Variation
  • LCSH : English language -- Spoken English
  • LCSH : English language -- Grammar
  • LCSH : Conversation analysis -- Data processing
  • LCSH : Linguistic change
  • LCSH : Communication models
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0018045X