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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2018
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781108552202
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552202
Subjects:
Grammar and Syntax, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (158)
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Book description

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and largely unreported types of clause structure. Andrew Radford debunks the myth that colloquial English has a substandard, simplified grammar, and shows that it has a coherent and complex structure of its own. The book develops a theoretically sophisticated account of structure and variation in colloquial English, advancing an area that has been previously investigated from other perspectives, such as corpus linguistics or conversational analysis, but never before in such detail from a formal syntactic viewpoint.

Reviews

‘Lucid, magisterial, encyclopaedic; it covers a huge amount of material and makes sense of horrendously complex data.'

Neil Smith - University College London

‘Radford demonstrates convincingly that colloquial English is as theoretically interesting and descriptively challenging as standard English. Expressing yourself informally does not exempt you from the constraints of Universal grammar.'

Jan Terje Faarlund - University of Oslo

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