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Miller, Jim

Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse

Miller, Jim - Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse, ebook

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Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages. The authors argue that the differences in syntax and the construction of discourse between spontaneous speech and written language bear on various areas of linguistic theory, apart from having obvious implications for syntactic analysis. In particular, they bear on typology, Chomskyan theories of first language acquisition, and the perennial problem of language in education. In current typological practice written and spontaneous spoken texts are often compared; the authors show convincingly that typological research should compare like with like. The consequences for Chomskyan, and indeed all, theories of first language acquisition flow from the central fact that children acquire spoken language but learn written language.

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Keywords: Spoken Language, Syntax, Discourse

Author(s)
 
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication year
1998
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
472 pages
Categories
Litterary Studies
 
Novels
Format
Ebook
eISBN (PDF)
0-19-823656-5

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