Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language - Softcover

Lobeck, Anne; Denham, Kristin

 
9781119944430: Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1119944430 ISBN 13: 9781119944430
Verlag: Wiley, 2024

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Navigating English Grammar presents an engaging and insightful introduction to the structure of English. Lobeck and Denham's inquiry-based approach encourages students to discover the fundamentals of English grammar by investigating their own intuitive knowledge of the language. This popular textbook equips students with a practical set of tools to analyze English in all its varieties and representations.
 
By exploring how English varies from community to community, and how English has changed over time, students find that English, like any other language, is a dynamic system, and that attitudes about language are often based on social perceptions rather than linguistic fact. In this fully revised and updated second edition of Navigating English Grammar, student-friendly chapters with examples taken from diverse varieties of American English illustrate the grammatical concepts of a living language, whose "rules" are decided by language users instead of language authorities. Accessible to any reader regardless of background in language and linguistics, this important textbook features:
* Entirely revised chapters on clauses, subordination and coordination, and modification
* Basic phrase structure rules and tree diagrams to provide accessible graphic representations of language structure
* Updated language examples drawn from varieties of American English that illustrate English as a dynamic system that changes over space and time
* Revisions and updates to all chapters including new exercises, text excerpts, and boxes
* A completely new capstone chapter that provides an overview of concepts and an extensive set of challenging practice exercises
 
Assuming no prior familiarity with the study of English grammar, Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in English grammar and related courses in English linguistics, second language acquisition, and language education programs. It is also a valuable resource for students studying the linguistics of other languages who want to improve their understanding of grammar.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham are Professors of Linguistics at Western Washington University, where they teach courses on syntax, English grammar, and linguistics in education, and where they both enjoy making linguistic knowledge accessible and relevant for everyone. In addition to numerous publications on integrating linguistics in education, Lobeck and Denham have also co-edited Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education (2010) and co-authored Why Study Linguistics (2019) and Linguistics for Everyone (2013).

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Enables students to understand their assumptions and beliefs about the language they use every day

In Navigating English Grammar, Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham offer an engaging introduction to the linguistic study of the structure of English. Teaching basic grammatical analysis through inquiry rather than memorization, this popular textbook encourages students to use their intuitive knowledge of language to make their own discoveries about the grammatical categories add principles of the grammar of English.

The book strikes a balance between basic descriptive grammar and syntactic theory, introducing students not only to the structure of English, but also in some cases to why English has the structure it does. Along the way, students discover how English has changed over time, and how it varies from speech community to speech community. Student-friendly chapters contain numerous examples drawn from different varieties of American English, which illustrate how English grammar is a dynamic system: perceptions of one variety as ‘better’ or ‘more correct’ than another, and notions of ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ English are socially constructed rather than based on linguistic fact.

This edition is fully updated with new examples, new text excerpts from a diverse range of written genres and authors, and completely revised chapters and exercises. The book also includes an entirely new final capstone chapter designed to encourage students to apply what they have learned with more challenging practice exercises.

Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in English grammar, English linguistics, and language education.

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Verlag
Wiley
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1119944430
ISBN 13 
9781119944430
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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