Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse by Regina Weinert (English) Ha

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Spontaneous Spoken Language by Regina Weinert, Jim Miller

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Description Jim Miller and Regina Weinert examine the types of clauses used by people when they are speaking off the cuff. They also analyse the devices speakers use when organizing larger chunks of language. They argue that there are differences between spoken and written language, and conclude by exploring the implications of their findings.

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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 authors argue that the differences in syntax and the construction of discourse between spontaneous speech and written language bear on various areas oflinguistic 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 ineducation. 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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ISBN 0198236565
ISBN-13 9780198236566
Title Spontaneous Spoken Language
Author Regina Weinert, Jim Miller
Format Hardcover
Year 1998
Pages 472
Publisher Oxford University Press

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