The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... sense can we say that this language is a unity ? Does the dweller in London speak and write like the native of Chicago ? Or does the Nebraska villager speak like the Yorkshire villager ? Or does even the Nebraska villager speak like ...
... sense can we say that this language is a unity ? Does the dweller in London speak and write like the native of Chicago ? Or does the Nebraska villager speak like the Yorkshire villager ? Or does even the Nebraska villager speak like ...
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... sense of good taste is by the use of what is regarded as provincial and uncouth speech . Class dialects are still more numerous and difficult of control than local dialects . The most comprehensive class distinction in speech is that ...
... sense of good taste is by the use of what is regarded as provincial and uncouth speech . Class dialects are still more numerous and difficult of control than local dialects . The most comprehensive class distinction in speech is that ...
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... sense attaches to the word " dialect . " The speech of a locality or of a particular level of society is classed as a dialect by contrast with a more highly esteemed cosmopolitan or cultivated speech . The difference between the two ...
... sense attaches to the word " dialect . " The speech of a locality or of a particular level of society is classed as a dialect by contrast with a more highly esteemed cosmopolitan or cultivated speech . The difference between the two ...
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... sense of unity , the area of negligible variation must grow with the growth of the area of inclusiveness . English considered as a national dialect or idiom is a notion arrived at by grouping those features of speech which the members ...
... sense of unity , the area of negligible variation must grow with the growth of the area of inclusiveness . English considered as a national dialect or idiom is a notion arrived at by grouping those features of speech which the members ...
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... sense that as he lived and developed , his language grew and developed with him . Rejecting the grandiose notion of an original act of creation , divine or human , in language , as an unpromising approach to the question of unity and ...
... sense that as he lived and developed , his language grew and developed with him . Rejecting the grandiose notion of an original act of creation , divine or human , in language , as an unpromising approach to the question of unity and ...
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