| Colloquial English: Structure and Variation Contributor(s): Radford, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108428053 ISBN-13: 9781108428057 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
| Dewey: 425 |
| LCCN: 2017058251 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.37" W x 9.24" (1.35 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Radford, Andrew: - Andrew Radford is Emeritus Professor at the University of Essex. He has written nine books on syntactic theory and English syntax, including Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English (Cambridge, 1997), Minimalist Syntax (Cambridge, 2004) and Analysing English Sentences (Cambridge, 2016). |
