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Whys & Therefores: A Rational Look at the English Language
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(Buch) |
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Veröffentlichung: |
April 2011
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Genre: |
Sprache |
ISBN: |
9781845536510 |
EAN-Code:
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9781845536510 |
Verlag: |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 246 mm / B 189 mm / D 16 mm |
Gewicht: |
562 gr |
Seiten: |
288 |
Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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Inhalt: |
Whys & Therefores aids the reader to arrive at generalizations for the shape of the English language: words, grammar, meaning, sound and spelling. The format adopted throughout is that of a light-hearted ongoing Socratic dialogue between a mentor and a pupil. The intended effects of such activity are: awareness of what it means to 'know' a language; reliance upon native-language intuition; discovery of what one didn't know that one already 'knows' about the language; use of ungrammaticality as an investigative tool; healthy questioning of received facts about language from so-called experts; and usefulness of language play.
Whys & Therefores can be read as a book,dipped into at random, expanded upon, even acted out. The language phenomena treated therein are indexed and tabbed to the dialogues where they are discussed, making Whys & Therefores a valuable source of reference.
Whys & Therefores is intended as an entertaining yet serious do-it-yourself book about aspects of English language form and meaning. However, it will also prove useful to schools as classroom material to be further exploited by the instructor in free-range dialogue form, and to institutions offering teacher training in rational-based instructional procedures for English language education in the schools. |
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