Spoken And Written Language

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This books identifies the important differences between speaking and writing. Halliday leads the reader from the development of speech in infancy, through an account of writing systems, to a comparative treatment of spoken and written language, contrasting the prosodic features and grammatical intricacy of speech with the high lexical density and grammatical metaphor or writing.

E-Book Information

  • Year: 1,989

  • Edition: 2nd

  • Pages: 128

  • Pages In File: 63

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 319

  • Issue: до 2011-01

  • Identifier: 0194371530,9780194371537

  • Org File Size: 2,004,451

  • Extension: pdf

  • Tags: Языки и языкознание Лингвистика Общее языкознание