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By John AlgeoThe focus of the book is on the internal history of the English language: its sounds, grammar, and word stock. That linguistic history is, however, set against the social and cultural background of the changing times. The first three chapters are introductory, treating language in general as well as the pronunciation and orthography of present-day English. The succeeding central six chapters are the heart of the book, tracing the history of the language from prehistoric Indo-European days through Old English, Middle English, and early Modern English up to the present time. The final three chapters deal with vocabulary—the meaning, making, and borrowing of words.
By R.L.Trask he book in your hand is neither a dictionary nor an encyclopedia, but something in between. As its title suggests, it provides fairly detailed coverage of nearly 300 key concepts in the study of language. The named concepts selected for inclusion are all among the most important in the field, and among those which every beginning student is likely to encounter
By TAMILNADU Through this book you will realise that communicative competence is not only the ability to apply the grammatical rules of the language and form correct sentences, but also to know how when and where to use the sentences. It also gives you an idea of the topics to be talked about in different types of speech events and writing.
By Crawford Kilian, Leslie Savage, Azza Sedky, Martin Wittman This book should also help you to communicate interactively. Fifty years ago, people thought of communication as a one—way street: The writer or speaker had a message that was supposed to go to a passive reader or listener, who would then do what the message asked.
By Timothy Boronczyk, Elizabeth Naramore, Jason Gerner, Yann Le Scouarnec, Jeremy Stolz, Michael K. Glass This book is geared toward the “ newbie ” to Apache, MySQL, and PHP, and we ’ ve done our best to distill many of the core concepts and code snippets down to their most basic levels. You will find more complex and perhaps more efficient ways of accomplishing the same tasks we present in this book as your knowledge, comfort level, and experience increase.