An Uncommon Tongue: The Uses and Resources of EnglishRoutledge, 2021/11/30 - 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
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Usage users and the used | 16 |
The difficulty of explaining a word or two about dictionaries | 32 |
Our true intent or whats the point of punctuation? | 48 |
The possibilities of paraphrase | 67 |
On parody a discourse with interludes | 83 |
The meanings of metadiscourse | 99 |
On writing well | 116 |
Composition and creativeness | 132 |
Historic event creative effort the making of a dramatic poem | 156 |
English a global resource? | 174 |
Extracts from dictionaries in connection withchapter 3 The difficulty of explaining | 191 |
Extracts from The Times 923 April 1803in connection with chapter 10 Historic event creative effort | 199 |
Notes | 204 |
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accept American appears arch argument attempt become beginning called Captain clause colon comma composition consider construction course creative define definition Dictionary discourse English example experience explanation expression fact feeling figurative give going grammar hand implies instance intention interest kind language least lecture less lines linguistic literary London look Macnamara mark matter meaning metadiscourse metaphor mind Montgomery never noun object observed obvious opening original Oxford paraphrase parody particular passage pattern perhaps persons phrase piece poem possible practice present punctuation question reader reference relationship resource rhetoric seems semi-colon sense sentence social sort speak speech standard story style suggest suppose talk tell things turn University usage verb voice wish word writing