Название: English Vocabulary Elements: A Course in the Structure of English Words, 3rd EditionАвтор: William R. Leben, Brett Kessler
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 369
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 17.9 MB
This book is designed for college-level courses about English words and word structure. It explores how units of a language—sounds, word elements, words—function together and how a language functions in society over time. The ultimate aim is to acquaint native and nonnative English speakers with aspects of English vocabulary that may be new to them. This includes practice in analyzing complex words, tracing how English got to its present state, and outlining factors that influence people’s attitudes toward English usage. We hope this book will serve students in any field of study looking for better comprehension of English vocabulary as well as anyone curious about the language, its development over time, and its growing importance as a world language.
As the primary language of the World Wide Web, English is a more widespread tool of communication than ever. We hope that this book will supply readers with knowledge that will help them use English more effectively and understand others better. Ideally, we hope to impart the curiosity about the language that has motivated us to write this book.
The book’s first goal is to expand vocabulary skills by teaching the basic units of learned, specialized, and scientific English vocabulary. To make sense of current English word structure and to build word analysis skills that will continue to prove useful, the book presents basic principles of word formation and word use and shows how these have affected English since its beginnings. This in turn leads to further topics, including phonetics and the relationship of English to other Indo-European languages. Along the way, we make a stab at the difficult question of what is considered good English. In covering such a broad range of material, the book provides an introduction to some of the most important concepts of modern linguistics.
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