English Language and Linguistics/Carlo Papini Scaringi. New Delhi, Anmol, 2007, viii, 274 p., ISBN 81-261-3324-6.

    Contents: Preface. 1. The context and language. 2. Language in school tasks. 3. Right-handed metaphor and left-handed Synedoche. 4. Form in composition. 5. Complexity and writing quality. 6. Linguistics and error analysis. 7. Linguistic features. 8. Non-Linguistic linguistics. 9. Composition and stylistics. 10. Characterizing the language. Index. 

    "The book "English Language and Linguistics" uses standard terminology familiar from internationally widely used textbooks in individual linguistic subdisciplines. The selection of topics addressed in the book, its overall structure, the structure of the individual chapters, the style, or the layout is all friendly to the readers.

    In the chapters the (or, for those who would like to cast the net wider, seven of the) core branches of linguistics are addressed: phonetics and phonology, morphology, grammar and sociolinguistics.

    These chapters can be profitably read even by readers whose knowledge of English is rudimentary or non-existent since it places contrastive linguistics within the other branches of comparative linguistics, adopting a specifically typological perspective, and discusses bundles of distinctive structural properties of English not addressed elsewhere in the book." (jacket)  

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