Full Description
If you've ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book for you. Easing readers gently into the study of the structure of English, Grammar: A Pocket Guide covers common questions such as:
Is it "10 items or less" or "10 items or fewer"?
Should I say "If I were you" or "if I was you"?
Can you start a sentence with "And" or "Because"?
When do you use "whom"?
What is the difference between "lie" and "lay"?
Is it "I feel bad" or "I feel badly"?
Using examples from everyday speech and writing, this handy book "cracks the code" of off-putting grammatical jargon so that readers can enjoy learning how to think and talk about grammar. With practice exercises, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading, Grammar: A Pocket Guide is the perfect foundation for anyone wanting to improve his or her writing and communication.
Contents
Part I: Language, Education and Cultural Change
1. Language Variation: Students and teachers reflect on accents and dialects, Susan J. Behrens and Rebecca L. Sperling
2. Speech Communities: Language as a mediator of messages and perceptions, Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth
3. Teaching Pronunciation: Using phonology in the ESL and foreign language classroom, Joanna Labov
Part II: Literature, Translation and Computers
4. Lexicography: What dictionaries reveal about language and lexicographers, Paul Fallon
5. Text Translation: Approaching otherness, Mary Boldt and Esperanza Roncero
6. Machine Translation: The challenge of ambiguity, Nan Decker
7. Transgressive Language: The 'n- word' and the 'f- word' in popular culture and all that Jazz, Carmen Gillespie
Part III: Language, Power, and Identity
8. Language, Power, and Sexual Assault: Women's voices on rape and social change, Judith A. Parker and Deborah Mahlstedt
9. Gender, Language and Power: Surname or sirname? Diana Boxer
10. The Possibility of Linguistics as a Forensic Science: The case of author identification, Carole E. Chaski
Part IV: Forms of Language and Communication
11. First Language Acquisition: Developing native linguistic competence, Janine Graziano-King and Helen Cairns
12. ASL: A visual language, Miako Villanueva, Deanna Twain, and Laura Wood
13. Animal Communication: The "language" of honey bees, Wyatt Mangum
Part V: Language and Communication Science
14. Communication Disorders: A personal perspective, Ann Jablon
15. Analyzing narratives: An example of cross cultural research methods, Cecile Stein
16. Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics: Contributions to healthy aging and dementia, Yael Neumann, Linda Carozza, and Anastasia Georgiou
17. Autism and Language: The two worlds underlying verbal communication, Marion Blank and Mary Beth Cull
