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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald Carter |
ISBN: | 0415234492 9780415234498 0415234484 9780415234481 |
OCLC Number: | 219063120 |
Description: | XIII, 255 Seiten |
Responsibility: | Ronald Carter. |
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'Reading this volume gives the same pleasure as dipping into a reference book on where words come from. It is fascinating and full of background interest ... It is an intriguing study, delving into how human beings use language and how every one of us is creative with it.' - ESB'The strength of this book is that Carter uses "real" evidence, transcriptions of conversations from the Cancode corpus, a 5-million-word computerised database that includes recordings from a variety of settings in the UK and Ireland. This broad-ranging approach makes the book a useful consciousness-raising exercise for beginner students.' - Jean Aitchison, The Times Higher Education Supplement'The book is a valuable new intervention which should be considered by all applied linguists for both the detail of its analyses and the larger questions it opens up.' - BaaL News Read more...

