Ebook: Colloquial English : Structure and Variation
Author: Andrew Radford
- Tags: English language -- Variation, English language -- Spoken English, English language -- Grammar, Conversation analysis -- Data processing, Linguistic change, Communication models
- Series: Cambridge studies in linguistics 158
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Language: English
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"Colloquial English 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 Read more...