This work uses the latest corpus research to show how 50 grammatical structures are used in speech and writing. This focus on authentic usage helps students move past traditional grammar texts and use English more like native speakers.

Real Grammar: A Corpus-Based Approach to English

Reference

Biber, Douglas

Conrad, Susan

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson Education ESL

Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. Example analyses are presented in each chapter to provide concrete descriptions of the research methods and advantages of corpus-based techniques. Ten methodology boxes provide clear and concise explanations of the issues in doing corpus-based research and reading corpus-based studies and there is a useful appendix of resources for corpus-based investigation. This lucid and comprehensive introduction to the subject will be welcomed by a broad range of readers, from undergraduate students to professional researchers.

Reppen, Randi

Biber, Professor Douglas

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and differences in language use across texts and user groups.

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and differences in language use across texts and user groups.

Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of particular text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties (conversation, university office hours, service encounters), written varieties (newspapers, academic prose, fiction), and emerging electronic varieties (e-mail, internet forums, text messages). Finally, Part 3 introduces advanced analytical approaches using corpora, and discusses theoretical concerns, such as the place of register studies in linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. Each chapter ends with three types of activities: reflection and review activities, analysis activities, and larger project ideas.

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which English grammar is really used. The book looks at four text types ¿ conversation, fiction, news reportage, and academic prose ¿ and reports statistical findings as well as examining the reasons that condition a particular grammatical choice.

Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English

Finegan, Edward

Leech, Geoffrey

Johansson, Stig

English as a Second Language

Longman

Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English

Based on the acclaimed Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English , this corpus-based text provides advanced students with a detailed look at the elements of English grammar ¿ including, how, why, and when to use different structures.

LONGMAN

This is the workbook to accompany the 'Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English'.

Longmans Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook

Pearson/Longman

A fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part I introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles, while Part II provides more detailed corpus-based descriptions of text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties, general and professional written varieties and emerging electronic varieties. Part III introduces more advanced analytical approaches and deals with larger theoretical concerns, such as the relationship between register studies and other sub-disciplines of linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. A new chapter on EAP and ESP has been added, with new sections on the important differences between academic writing in the humanities and sciences, and a case study on engineering reports as an ESP register and genre. Coverage of new electronic registers has been updated, and a new analysis of hybrid registers has been added.

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Real Grammar: A Corpus-Based Approach to English

Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)

Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)

Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)

Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English

Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English

Longmans Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook

Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)