Title: Navigating English Grammar. 2nd Edition
Subtitle: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Wiley
http://www.wiley.com
Book URL: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Navigating+English+Grammar%3A+A+Guide+to+Analyzing+Real+Language%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119944454

Author: Anne Lobeck
Author: Kristin Denham
Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-119-94443-0 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 38.95
eBook: ISBN: 978-1-119-94445-4 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 31.00
Abstract:

In Navigating English Grammar, Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham offer an engaging introduction to the linguistic study of the structure of English. Teaching basic grammatical analysis through inquiry rather than memorization, this popular textbook encourages students to use their intuitive knowledge of language to make their own discoveries about the grammatical categories add principles of the grammar of English.

The book strikes a balance between basic descriptive grammar and syntactic theory, introducing students not only to the structure of English, but also in some cases to why English has the structure it does. Along the way, students discover how English has changed over time, and how it varies from speech community to speech community. Student-friendly chapters contain numerous examples drawn from different varieties of American English, which illustrate how English grammar is a dynamic system: perceptions of one variety as ‘better’ or ‘more correct’ than another, and notions of ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ English are socially constructed rather than based on linguistic fact.

This edition is fully updated with new examples, new text excerpts from a diverse range of written genres and authors, and completely revised chapters and exercises. The book also includes an entirely new final capstone chapter designed to encourage students to apply what they have learned with more challenging practice exercises.

Navigating English Grammar: A Guide to Analyzing Real Language, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in English grammar, English linguistics, and language education.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)