Spoken Language and Applied LinguisticsSpoken Language and Applied Linguistics argues for putting spoken language right at the centre of the syllabus. It brings together a number of separate studies by the author, based on the CANCODE spoken corpus, and weaves them together to illustrate the central role the study of spoken language can play in applied linguistics. After an introduction to the corpus, the author lays out the main components of a theory of spoken genres, with corpus examples. There then follows a broad discussion of what can/should be taught about the spoken language, followed by chapters on discourse grammar and on the sometimes parallel, sometimes different, grammatical patterning of spoken and written texts. The book then turns to lexis, with a general overview of the vocabulary of spoken language and closes with a look at another central area of language teaching, speech reporting. |
Contents
Spoken language and the notion of genre | 26 |
When does sentence grammar become discourse grammar? | 69 |
Some patterns of cooccurrence of verbforms in spoken | 90 |
Vocabulary and the spoken language | 108 |
a discoursebased reexamination of | 129 |
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activity adjacency pair Aijmer Amsterdam analysis Applied Linguistics British English Cambridge University Press CANCODE corpus chapter choice clauses contexts conversation conversation analysis corpora Corpus Linguistics Coulmas cultural deixis discourse analysis discourse markers discussion ellipsis English Language English Studies evaluation everyday examples extracts function get-passive goals going grammar idiomatic idioms indirect speech informal interaction Ivanhoe kinds language teaching laughs learners lexical density lexico-grammatical listeners Little Chef London look McCarthy and Carter mean narrative observation occur participants past simple pattern pedagogical phrasal verb Pragmatics problem real data realised reference relation relevant reporting verb semantic sentences sequence service encounters simply social speakers speech acts speech reporting spoken and written spoken corpus spoken data spoken discourse spoken English spoken language story structure syllabus talk teachers tense things tions topic transactional types University of Nottingham utterances vocabulary written language written texts