English Grammar: Prescriptive, Descriptive, Generative, Performance
For graduates or advanced undergraduates going into a profession that entails analyzing other people's speech, such as English, linguistics, speech-language pathology, and teaching English as a second... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0205200257
ISBN13:9780205200252
Release Date:July 1998
Publisher:Longman Publishing Group
Length:324 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 7.1" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
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Great Grammar!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I used this textbook in the grammar analysis class I had to have on my journey towards teaching certification. The book explores the four approaches to English grammar: Prescriptivism, Descriptivism, Generativism, and Performance. Most grammar taught in public schools is prescriptivist, even though most of us speak and write in a descriptivist way. Generativism and performance explore the way the brain basically spits out sentences. Generativism and performance are also more linguistical in approach, owing a great deal to Noam Chomsky.I found this book to be quite useful. It is informative, fairly easy to understand, and contains many valuable exercises. It's a great textbook to have for studying grammar and can be useful when studying linguistics.
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