This book provides an innovative analysis of English grammar in the spoken form. Hitherto, most grammars of English have relied heavily on the written language, and this excludes much normal spoken discourse, This work offers an alternative view of the structure of spoken English based on naturally-occurring language data. A Grammar of Speech has relevance for many areas related to linguistics, such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and machine translation.

A Grammar of Speech (Oxford Applied Linguistics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Carter, Ronald

Sinclair, John

Brazil, David

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

This material for advanced learners provides an accessible combination of pronunciation theory and practice. The Audio CDs contain clear pronunciation models and material to improve listening comprehension for Advanced learners both in the language classroom and when studying on their own.

Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English Audio CDs (3)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Cambridge University Press

This material for advanced learners provides an accessible combination of pronunciation theory and practice. The Audio Cassettes contain clear pronunciation models and material to improve listening comprehension for Advanced learners both in the language classroom and when studying on their own.

Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English Cassettes (2)

English as a Second Language

This material for advanced learners provides an accessible combination of pronunciation theory and practice. The Student's Book encourages learners to examine the sound system of English in the context of connected speech and describes how intonation works in practice.

Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English Student's book

This book encourages learners to examine the sound system of English in the context of connected speech and describes how intonation works in practice.

Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English Teacher's book

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English, originally published in 1985 by the English Language Research unit in Birmingham and revised in 1992, sets out David Brazil's description of the system of intonation in English. This model of English intonation takes a discourse-based approach and attempts to assign 'meaning' or a communicative value to the different aspects that make up the system of intonation. Chapters within the book descibe parts of the intonation system which vary according to speaker choice: the tone unit as a whole, prominence, key, pitch and orientation. Three chapters are devoted to tones and their communicative value. This is an important and controversial work, which has influenced scholars in the field and ELT materials writers alike. A cassette containing all the examples of intonation features in the book is available.

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English Book (Applied Linguistics Non)

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English, originally published in 1985 by the English Language Research unit in Birmingham and revised in 1992, sets out David Brazil's description of the system of intonation in English. This model of English intonation takes a discourse-based approach and attempts to assign 'meaning' or a communicative value to the different aspects that make up the system of intonation. Chapters within the book descibe parts of the intonation system which vary according to speaker choice: the tone unit as a whole, prominence, key, pitch and orientation. Three chapters are devoted to tones and their communicative value. This is an important and controversial work, which has influenced scholars in the field and ELT materials writers alike. A cassette containing all the examples of intonation features in the book is available.

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English Book (Cambridge Professional Learning)

The third full-length collection from poet-scholar-activist David Brazil, Holy Ghost is a hymnal with secular burdens, poured from the mold of our actual life in common, sung against its limits. It seeks a way to find and build a soul together, and records the seekers' findings along the way, proposing love as our common human denominator. A record of the author's struggle to forge a relationship between two distinct vocationsone historical, as an activist (with Occupy Oakland, among other projects), and one spiritual, as he explores the path of radical Christian discipleship (in his life as a pastor)Holy Ghost attempts to articulate an understanding of where class struggle meets the will of God.David Brazil is a poet, translator, and novelist. His books include The Ordinary and antisocial patience. With Kevin Killian, he edited the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985. From 2008 to 2011 he published over sixty issues of the seminal TRY! magazine with Sara Larsen. David co-pastors a house church in Oakland and works for social justice with the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy. He's a Scorpio.Praise for Holy Ghost:"One of the special books of this decade and should be read by Souls or Ghosts or Geists in search of assurance  Brazil's Holy Ghost is as Romantic as a long poem by Percy Shelley. An act of beautybreath-taking. As unexpected as A.N. Whitehead's Function of Reason and Christian Morgenstern's nonsense poetry. Brazil brings to mind the tenseless, non-subjective (not centered on the 'I' figure), and numberless of some Asian languages. I free-float in the presence of this wholly Kindness-Ghost as I would float in a Navajo worldlike that world, the surrounding is strange and natural. Bask in it  Slip in or out of it  Any muscular ring or reflection in, on, or part of the Holy Ghost, is the Ghost. The Holy Ghost shimmers with Jack Kerouac's Blues, and on the page (typographically) can be as precise as Diane di Prima's poetry and Leslie Scalapino's  It's not impossible to hear Kurt Cobain humming in the background."Michael McClure"All singing is contemporaneous in the heart, & thus I'd call Holy Ghost heart-felt. It keeps time with the forms of its devotion, touching various eras of diction, prayer & song & verse & hymn. In the mind then, all at once, it does becomes a work of love; for the reader, for paths of grace & liberation, & for the singing that refuses to abide our time but takes its measure, day by day, in wounded, contemplative poems. Everywhere it must be poor it is. It comes to us in penury because the search for company & love is the struggle of students & poets who seeks out such wealth in an era when they're ever more in peril. So it arrives rich, by which I mean empty handed, & so doing makes the book into a little ball of light, a trove of mercy's tone, & my heart's treasure."Dana Ward"'When time is the instrument, grace is the measure,' writes David Brazil, in this dazzling book of 'earthly liturgy.' These poems of glorification, joyful and solemn, speak to the erasure of the boundary between mrtam/amrtam (death/non-death) and recall Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience as well as Robert Duncan’s Heavenly City Earthly City. With clarity and infinite finesse, the rhythms and tensile swing of Brazil’s writing direct hymn’s availability, from today’s idiomatic speech to a yesteryear of sermon and rune. Every note counts."—Norma Cole

Holy Ghost (City Lights Spotlight, 15)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

City Lights Publishers

Poetry. THE ORDINARY is the first full-length collection from David Brazil.

The Ordinary

Compline

Poetry. California Interest. Jewish Studies. Religious Studies. "The 18 suites of poems that make up ANTISOCIAL PATIENCE are a kind of diary of days lived in the aftermath of political upheaval, when it's quiet. Solidarity's subsided, the torn-open world of possibilities has shut back down. But something's changed; the poet has found God. There are hymns and psalms and sonnets and syllabics here; canticles and macaronic verse, little ABAB stanzas and Oakland argot with a King James twist. They are sidewalk- poems, working-in-bookstore poems; restricted and devotional, utterly compact and wide-water open. What if Bartleby had had a giant heart? What if Hopkins had fought the cops? Throw your phone away, the poems suggest; cry out your name in the street. Your friends will find you anyway, and you'll remember that you're really here."&mdash;Chris Nealon

antisocial patience

Religion & Spirituality

Roof Books

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