Posted: February 29th, 2008, 9:09pm CET
English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction, Second Edition
今日英语语法
# Author:Geoffrey Leech, Margaret Deuchar, Robert Hoogenraad
# Format:PDF 12.6MB
# Page Count: 256 pages
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2 edition (November 24, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 140391642X
# ISBN-13: 978-1403916426
Written by a team led by a world authority in English grammar, English Grammar for Today has established itself as a rich educational experience for both native- and non-native-speaking students. This engaging and stimulating text enables students to learn grammar not just for its own sake, but also for the pleasure of exploring, appreciating and understanding the way language communicates in written text and spoken discourse. Throughout, the emphasis is on using grammar in present-day English.After an introduction placing grammar in its educational and cultural context, the authors present a toolkit for analyzing sentences. The second part of the book demonstrates how to apply this toolkit to spoken and written language, using a wide range of real textual materials. Each chapter ends with a set of carefully-designed exercises and tasks to aid understanding, with answers provided at the end of the volume.Now thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of today's students, this new edition features: A new Foreword by the English Association An additional introductory chapter, "Getting Started with Grammar", which introduces the subject for those with no prior knowledge Improved and extended diagrams, exercises and answers Up-to-date textual passages and examplesLively and approachable, this indispensable guide is ideal for both students and teachers who are looking for their first serious engagement with - or wishing to rediscover- English grammar.
Posted: February 28th, 2008, 9:01pm CET
Longman Advanced Grammar: Reference and Practice
朗文高级语法:参考与实践
# Author:L. G. Alexander
# Format:PDF 17.6MB
# Page Count: 304 pages
# Publisher: Longman Publishing Group (January 1993)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0582079780
# ISBN-13: 978-0582079786
Longman Advanced Grammar has three aims:
1 To serve as an advanced 'text decoder', using the analysis of syntax as the key to understanding difficult text.
2 To provide practice in advanced points of grammar.
3 To serve as an advanced reference grammar, where citations are to be found in context,and not just quoted at sentence-level in isolation from their source.
The work combines the functions of a Reader, a Practice Book and a Reference Book for students whose previous learning history has not prepared them to cope with texts at an advanced level.
Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:35am CET
Test Your Professional English - Business Intermediate
商务中介专业英语测试
# Author:BRIEGEN
# Format:PDF 5.3MB
# Page Count: 106 pages
# Publisher: Pearson ESL; New Ed edition (August 6, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0582451493
# ISBN-13: 978-0582451490
Test Your Professional English: Business Intermediate is organized into eight sections and covers words and expressions in areas such as business strategy, project management, business jargon, meetings, presentations, the internet and business culture.
This practical series includes a number of specialist titles which help students communicate more effectively. Each book contains over 60 tests and over 500 key words and expressions. They are ideal for class use or self-study.
Posted: February 27th, 2008, 8:55pm CET
The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage
剑桥澳洲英语使用指南
# Author:Pam Peters
# Format:PDF 2.8MB
# Page Count: 924 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (May 14, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0521702429
# ISBN-13: 978-0521702423
The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic corpora; the internet; public surveys of usage, conducted through Australian Style) as well as the latest editions of English dictionaries, style manuals and grammars. With all this input the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage provides in-depth coverage of the currency of alternative usages in spelling, punctuation and word choice in Australia, while showing the influence of British and American English here as well. This book is designed for everyone who writes and edits documents and non-fiction texts, for print or electronic delivery. Tertiary students and staff will get plenty of help from it, as well as professional editors who work with manuscripts of many different authors and commissions from multiple publishers.
Posted: February 27th, 2008, 5:00am CET
An Introduction to International Varieties of English
# Author:Laurie Bauer
# Format:PDF 1.8MB
# Page Count: 160 pages
# Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (March 15, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0748613374
# ISBN-13: 978-0748613373
Covering varieties of English spoken in Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands, this book shows how the major national varieties of English have developed and why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world.
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 9:36am CET
A Communicative Grammar of English
交际英语语法
# Author:Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik
# Format:PDF 12.3MB
# Page Count: 423 pages
# Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman; 2 edition (September 1994)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 058208573X
# ISBN-13: 978-0582085732
A Communicative Grammar of English by Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, first published in 1975, has established itself as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. It is one of the best books on grammar ever written and still provides an up-to-date and accessible resource for teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English.
A Communicative Grammar of English employs a communicative rather than a structural approach to the learning of English grammar. This edition is divided into three parts. Part One: Varieties of English , looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, for example 'formal' and 'informal', 'spoken' and 'written'. Part Two: Intonation. Part Three: Grammar in use - the central and largest part of the book, presents grammar through the eyes of the communicator and focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure. Part Four: Grammatical Compendium - provides a useful and alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar.
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 5:17am CET
An Introduction to English Phonology
# Author:April McMahon
# Format:PDF 1.8MB
# Page Count: 128 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 21, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0195218914
# ISBN-13: 978-0195218916
This is a short, lively, and accessible introduction to the sounds of modern English. Its emphasis on variation, with examples from British, American, New Zealand, and Singaporean English, make it suitable for both native and non-native speakers. McMahon focuses on the vowels and consonants, but also discusses syllables, stress, and the phonology of words and phrases. She introduces new tools and terminology gradually, and discusses the motivation for key concepts.
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 9:09pm CET
Language and Gender (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
语言与性别(剑桥语言学教材系列)
# Author:Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell-Ginet
# Format:PDF 1.8MB
# Page Count: 378 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 3, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0521654262
# ISBN-13: 978-0521654265
This is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic system offers for the construction of social meaning. The body of the book offers unprecedented breadth and depth in its coverage of the interaction between language and social life. It is the ideal textbook for students in language and gender courses in several disciplines, including linguistics, gender studies, women's studies, sociology, and anthropology.
Posted: February 21st, 2008, 8:15pm CET
Write Better Essays in 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd Edition
每天20分钟:写出更好文章
# Author:LearningExpress Editors
# Format:PDF 1.0MB
# Page Count: 192 pages
# Publisher: LearningExpress, LLC; 2 edition (May 25, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1576855465
# ISBN-13: 978-1576855461
Essay writing need not be daunting. Taking the reader step-by-step through the entire process, from the initial organization of ideas to the final stages of proofreading, Write Better Essays in Just 20 Minutes a Day covers all the essentials: how to understand essay questions, create a strong thesis, develop a captivating introduction, support ideas, and revise the work. Included are plenty of sample essays, strategies for planning and revising in-class essays, ways to overcome writer's block, and tips on achieving higher scores on essay exams.
Posted: February 21st, 2008, 8:59am CET
A University Course in English Grammar
大学英语语法课程
# Author:Angela Downing
# Format:PDF 2.2MB
# Page Count:# 640 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (August 23, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 041528810X
# ISBN-13: 978-0415288101
This comprehensive up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and post-graduate students of Applied Linguistics and English Language. It is also suitable as a background course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources.
Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge. Features include:
*chapters divided into modules of class-length material
*literary and other authentic texts and transcriptions contextualise structure
*clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient teacher preparation and student revision
*tasks for individual study at the end of each chapter
*answer key to tasks
*comprehensive index. Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this reissue is now readily available from Routledge. This comprehensive up-to-date descriptive grammar is ideal for students of English as a foreign language.
Posted: February 20th, 2008, 8:56am CET
Language: A Biological Model
语言的生物模型
# Author:Ruth Garrett Millikan
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 240 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 26, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0199284776
# ISBN-13: 978-0199284771
Guiding the work of most linguists and philosophers of language today is the assumption that language is governed by prescriptive normative rules. Many believe that it is of the essence of thought itself to follow rules, rules of inference determining the intentional contents of our concepts, and that these rules originate as internalized rules of language. However, exactly what it is for there to be such things as normative rules of language remains distressingly unclear. From what source do these norms flow? What sanctions enforce them? What happens, exactly, if you don't follow the rules? How do children learn the rules? Ruth Millikan presents a radicallly different way of viewing the partial regularities that language displays, the norms and conventions of language. The central norms applying to language, like those norms of function and behavior that account for the survival and proliferation of biological traits, are non-evaluative norms. Specific linguistic forms survive and are reproduced together with co-operative hearer responses because, in a critical mass of cases, these patterns of production and response benefit both speakers and hearers. Conformity is needed only often enough to ensure that the co-operative use constituting the norm - the convention - continues to be copied and hence continues to characterize some interactions of some speaker-hearer pairs. What needs to be reproduced for discursive language forms to survive, it turns out, is not specific conceptual roles but only satisfaction conditions coupled to essential elements of hearer responses. An uncompromising rejection of conceptual analysis as a tool in philosophy results. At the same time the distinction between the propositional content and the force of a linguistic utterance comes into very sharp focus, force emerging as essential to the creation of content rather than as something added to content. The distinction between illocutionary and perlocutionary force, the distinction between linguistic meaning and speaker meaning, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction are each illuminated in new and crisper ways. On the model proposed, neither the intentionality of thought nor the intentionality of language is derived from the other. Processes involved in understanding language are not Gricean but more like direct perception of the world as mediated, for example, through the natural signs contained in the structured light that allows vision. There are also startling implications for pragmatics, and for how children learn language.
Posted: February 19th, 2008, 9:49am CET
The Language and Reality of Time
# Author:Thomas Sattig
# Format:PDF 2.1MB
# Page Count: 240 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 19, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0199279527
# ISBN-13: 978-0199279524
Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about the world. The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this picture is preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics of predication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.
Posted: February 13th, 2008, 9:07am CET
Goof-Proof College Admissions Essays
大学入学论文
# Author:LearningExpress Editors
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count: 144 pages
# Publisher: LearningExpress, LLC; 1 edition (July 25, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1576854701
# ISBN-13: 978-1576854709
With more qualified students than ever, competition for top-notch colleges is at an all-time high. In addition to impeccable grades and high test scores, students need to write an intelligent, concise essay to gain admission. It's vital to get the tools and strategies necessary for crafting a winning essay. Learn the goof-proof way to write specific types of essays, along with rules, tips, and do's and don'ts.
Lauren Starkey is a writer and editor, specializing in educational and reference works, with over ten years of experience. Currently, she tutors college-bound students on college admissions essays. She is the author of Goof-Proof Business Writing, Certified Fitness Instructor Career Starter and Hotel/Restaurant Management Career Starter. In addition, she has coauthored several career-related books, and has worked on the editorial staff of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Posted: February 11th, 2008, 4:51am CET
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On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
# Author:William K. Zinsser
# Format:PDF 4.4MB
# Page Count: 308 pages
# Publisher: Collins; 25th Anniversary E. Non Fiction Guide edition (September 18, 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0060006641
# ISBN-13: 978-0060006648
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sole, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.
Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he'd like to outlaw all leads involving those "future archaeologists" most often found "stumbl[ing] upon the remains of our civilization"). He recommends that all writers of nonfiction read their work aloud (don't commit something to paper that you wouldn't actually say) and write under the assumption that "the reader knows nothing" (not to be confused with assuming the reader's an idiot). In addition to the chapters on the expected--usage, audience, interviews, leads--Zinsser also focuses on such trouble spots as science and technical writing, business writing, sports, and humor.
Posted: February 10th, 2008, 12:15pm CET
Grammar for Teachers: A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers
教师美式英语语法指南:
# Author:Andrea DeCapua
# Format:PDF 1.4MB
# Page Count: 444 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 25, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0387763317
# ISBN-13: 978-0387763316
The purpose of Grammar for Teachers is to encourage readers to develop a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English. It approaches grammar from a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach; however, throughout Grammar for Teachers differences between formal and informal language, and spoken and written English are discussed. Grammar for Teachers avoids jargon or excessive use of technical terminology and reviews essential grammar structures clearly and concisely.
The text encourages users to tap into their own, often subconscious, knowledge of the grammar of English and to make it a conscious knowledge they can apply to their own varied teaching settings. Grammar for Teachers emphasizes looking at grammar from the perspective of learners of English, an approach that allows teachers to better appreciate the language difficulties learners of English face in ESL or mainstream classrooms. Discussions of areas of difficulties for learners of English are included throughout the text.
Posted: February 8th, 2008, 4:00am CET
The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
# Author:Nomi Erteschik-Shir Tova Rapoport
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Page Count: 330 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 15, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0199280444
# ISBN-13: 978-0199280445
This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that syntax plays in determining verbal meaning, aspectual interpretation, and thematic information. Various theories are developed in this collection, including those that take as their starting point the lexical-syntactic framework of Hale and Keyser, prominent among which is the chapter by Hale and Keyser themselves. By examining different phenomena in a cross-linguistic perspective, this book develops insights into the general theoretical question of universal grammar and acquisition as well as into the specific nature of the lexicon-syntax interface. It is a major contribution to modern syntactic theory.
Posted: February 7th, 2008, 3:52am CET
Meeting the Needs of Second Language Learners: An Educator's Guide
# Author:Judith Lessow-Hurley
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count:92 pages
# Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve (February 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0871207591
# ISBN-13: 978-0871207593
Today's public schools are increasingly characterized by cultural and linguistic diversity. Studies show that about 4.4 million students nationwide lack the English skills needed to succeed academically. To help second language learners keep up in the classroom, educators must understand the challenges that bilingual students and schools face.
In this concise guide, former bilingual teacher Judith Lessow-Hurley dives right into the language debate swirling in school systems large and small. She examines the popular myths about educating students in a multilinquistic society and introduces the key issues:
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:31am CET
Speaking, Listening And Understanding: Debate for Non-native English Speakers
英语辩论中的听,说和理解
# Author:Gary Rybold
# Format:PDF 20.8MB
# Page Count: 180 pages
# Publisher: International Debate Education Association (September 30, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1932716246
# ISBN-13: 978-1932716245
Speaking, Listening and Understanding introduces new English language speakers to the basics of debate. The initial version of this text was presented at the International Debate Festival held at the Xi'an International Studies University in the People's Republic of China in August 2004.Before writing this book, I noticed that there were no simple debate texts for new English language students. Texts available in the United States seemed too complex or used excessive cultural references. Too often, these qualities made learning difficult. This text was written with the non-native English speakers in mind.
Posted: February 5th, 2008, 3:24am CET
Telephoning in English (Cambridge Professional English)
电话英语(剑桥专业英语系列)
# Author:B. Jean Naterop, Rod Revell
# Format:PDF+MP3 40MB
# Page Count: 136 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 3 edition (August 16, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0521539110
# ISBN-13: 978-0521539111
Telephoning in English is for professionals and trainees in business, commerce and administration who need to be able to receive and make telephone calls. It is suitable for use in class or for self-study. Telephoning in English develops and consolidates practical telephone skills in a variety of interesting and relevant contexts. Activities range from message-taking and spelling practice to role play, providing learners with a comprehensive course in using the telephone in English.
Posted: February 4th, 2008, 4:11am CET
Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar
# Author:Maria Teresa Guasti
# Format:PDF 2.8MB
# Page Count: 490 pages
# Publisher: The MIT Press; New Ed edition (March 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0262572206
# ISBN-13: 978-0262572200
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to current thinking on language acquisition. Following an introductory chapter that discusses the foundations of linguistic inquiry, the book covers the acquisition of specific aspects of language from birth to about age 6. Topics include the language abilities of newborns, the acquisition of phonological properties of language, the lexicon, syntax, pronoun and sentence interpretation, control structures, specific language impairments, and the relationship between language and other cognitive functions.
At the conclusion of each chapter are a summary of the material covered, a list of keywords, study questions, and exercises. The book, which adopts the perspective of Chomskyan Universal Generative Grammar throughout, assumes a familiarity with basic concepts of linguistic theory.
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 4:01am CET
The Grammar of Names
名字的语法
# Author:John M. Anderson
# Format:PDF 1.6MB
# Page Count: 352 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (February 6, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 019929741X
# ISBN-13: 978-0199297412
This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics John Anderson examines the distribution and subcategorization of names within a framework of syntactic categories, and considers how the morphosyntactic behaviour of names connects to their semantic roles. He argues that names occur in two basic circumstances: one involving vocatives and their use in naming predications, where they are not definite; the other their use as arguments of predicators, where they are definite. This division is discussed in relation to English, French, Greek, and Seri, and a range of other languages. Professor Anderson reveals that the semantic status of names, including prototypicality, is crucial to understanding their morphosyntax and role in derivational relationships. He shows that semantically coherent subsets of names, such as those referring to people and places, are characterized by morphosyntactic properties which may vary from language to language. His original and important investigation will appeal to scholars and advanced students of linguistics and philosophy.
Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 3:41am CET
English Sentence Structure (Intensive Course in English Series)
英语句子结构
# Author:Michigan English Language Institute
# Format:PDF 24.3MB
# Page Count: 320 pages
# Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL (April 1, 1971)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0472083074
# ISBN-13: 978-0472083077
Part of the classic Michigan Rainbow series.
English Sentence Structure presents and clarifies all facets of the sentence for beginning and intermediate students. Oral drills, examples, and written exercises form a pattern of regular review and self-evaluation. Each lesson is coordinated with English Pattern Practices.
Posted: February 1st, 2008, 3:59am CET
Improving Learning in Secondary English
# Author:Geoff Dean
# Format:PDF 1.2MB
# Page Count: 144 pages
# Publisher: David Fulton Publish; 1 edition (September 25, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1843121468
# ISBN-13: 978-1843121466
Discussing ‘learning’ in English, as the two quotations above suggest, is an extremely difficult prospect. Yet, as the attention of the educational community is turning inexorably to a re-evaluation of and improvement in the quality of learning across the whole curriculum, English cannot expect to be excused from this examination. An attempt has to be made at this time to focus more clearly and ‘draw in the boundaries, to impose shape on what seems amorphous, rigour on what seems undisciplined’ if English is to be able to claim a full and valid place in the modern curriculum. Whilst the idea of regarding English as a‘process’, as one of the alternatives offered by the Bullock Report quotation above suggests, has been attractive in the past, the ‘learning landscape’ of which English forms a part has changed. More has been understood about the actual processes of learning, and research into the nature of English...
