Publication

2018-06-14 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

86,000 words, Guess

Page Count

344 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

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  • Amazon1108448690

Classifications

  • LCCPE1074.7.R36 2018

Description

"Colloquial English 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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  • Colloquial English: Structure and VariationPaperbackCambridge University Press2018-06-14

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