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2. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English - Wikipedia

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   While targeting "English language students and researchers" (p. 45), an abridged version of the grammar was released in 2002, Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, together with a workbook entitled Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook, to be used by students on university and teacher-training courses.

3. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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   The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler ( Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [ 1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [ 2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [ 3] and the Seattle Post ...

4. English language - Wikipedia

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   e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family originating on the island of Great Britain. [4][5][6] Speakers of the language are called Anglophones owing to the namesake of the language, the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to Britain in the early medieval period.

5. Spoken English Corpus - Wikipedia

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   The Spoken English Corpus (SEC) project was supported jointly in 1984-5 by the Humanities Research Fund at Lancaster University and by IBM (UK) Ltd, and subsequently by IBM UK Ltd. The project was supported by Geoffrey Leech at Lancaster and Geoffrey Kaye at IBM. The project was a collaboration, funded by IBM, between the Unit for Computer ...

6. Harold E. Palmer - Wikipedia

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   Harold Edward Palmer, usually just Harold E. Palmer (6 March 1877 – 16 November 1949), was an English linguist, phonetician and pioneer in the field of teaching English as a second language. [1] Especially he dedicated himself to Oral Method. He stayed in Japan for 14 years and reformed its English education.

7. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...