An Uncommon Tongue: The Uses and Resources of EnglishRoutledge, 2021/12/01 - 234 ページ First published in 1991, An Uncommon Tongue explores the theme of usage in its widest sense: usage as what we say or write; usage as a social question; usage as a literary convention; usage and creativity. The book reflects on the practice and status of the English language in the modern world and the demands it makes on its academic disciplines. It puts forward the argument that the study of usage transcends both the ‘prescriptive’ and ‘descriptive’ and is ultimately ‘constructive’, displaying the resources of language and exploring their use. |
目次
Usage users and the used | |
a word or two about dictionaries | |
or whats the point of punctuation? | |
The possibilities of paraphrase | |
a discourse with interludes | |
The meanings of metadiscourse | |
On writing well | |
Composition and creativeness | |
the making of a dramatic poem | |
a global resource? | |
Appendix | |
Extracts from dictionaries in connection with chapter 3 The difficulty of explaining | |
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academic appears arch argument audience Blunden British called Capt Captain Macnamara clause COBUILD colon comma composition construction contextual explanation course creative define definition Dictionary discourse English language entropy example expression fact feeling Fowler George Formby grammar holonym Honour hyponyms idiom implies instance intention Jane Austen kind lecture lexical linguistic literary London Longman matter meaning metadiscourse metaphor mind narrative native Newfoundland dogs notion noun observed obvious Otto Jespersen Oxford Oxford English Dictionary paraphrase parody passage pattern perception perhaps persons phrase pidgin poem poet poetic present prose punctuation rain check Randolph Quirk reader reference regale relationship repertoire resource rhetoric Richard Cory Robert Montgomery semantic semi-colon sense sentence social speak speaker speech standard story style stylistic suggest syntactic take a rain tell theme things Tok Pisin University usage verb vocabulary voice Walter Nash word writing