Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language - Couverture rigide

Lobeck, Anne; Denham, Kristin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1405159936 ISBN 13 : 9781405159937

Editeur : Wiley–Blackwell, 2013

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

While most grammar books start and stop with an explanation ofparts of speech and sentence structure,  Navigating EnglishGrammar goes a step further to provide an overview of thefield, with a discussion of historical and current debates aboutgrammar, and how we define, discuss, and approach it.

The authors use grammar as a springboard to discuss semantics andmorphology; how usage and sentence structure affects style inwriting; abbreviated style in the digital age; and the syntax ofpoetry, fiction, and other genres. Along the way they give examplesand analysis of texts. Among other controversies, the authors delveinto the sociopolitical aspects of grammar rules, the subjectivityof pet peeves and grammar police, the changing ways grammar hasbeen taught, and how assessment and a changing educational climatehas influenced this. They also lay out the fascinating history ofthe linguistic tradition, from the Sanskrit grammar of Panini (c.520–460 BCE), sometimes considered a founder of linguistics, to theancient Greeks, the development of the Western tradition, andthrough the rise of correct English grammar in the17th century to the present day.

Navigating English Grammar is an engaging and freshtake on the rules and the politics of English grammar, written inlively, inviting prose.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose. It goes a step further than most books on grammar by providing an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and current debates about grammar, and how we define, discuss, and approach it.

• Presents a novel, inquiry–based approach to understanding speakers′ unconscious knowledge of English grammar
• Makes lucid connections, when relevant, with current linguistic theory
• Integrates language change and variation into the study of grammar
• Examines historical sources of socially evaluative perceptions of grammar, as ′good′ or ′bad′, and notions of language authority
• Provides syntactic explanations for many modern punctuation rules
• Explores some of the current controversies about grammar teaching in school and the role of Standard English in testing and assessment

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley–Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1405159936
• ISBN 13: 9781405159937
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298