Paul Baker

American and British English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Is British English becoming more like American English? Paul Baker tracks the changes, trends and distinctions of both languages to answer this question.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107088863
• ISBN-10: 1107088860
• Artikelnr.: 48433915

Autorenporträt

Paul has cleverly combined his clinical mastery with commercial acumen to build profitable practices around valuable long-term relationships with self-funding patients. Making the complex simple, the Practice with Profit online health business accelerator equips health business leaders with the tools to build motivated high performing therapy teams that multiply revenues, profit and growth with minimum stress and maximum freedom. Learn more and connect at www.practicewithprofit.com

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Spelling differences
3. Letter sequences and affixation
4. Higher frequency words
5. Lower frequency words
6. Part of speech categories
7. Semantic categories
8. Swearing, identity and discourse markers
9. Conclusion.

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1. Introduction; 2. Spelling differences; 3. Letter sequences and affixation; 4. Higher frequency words; 5. Lower frequency words; 6. Part of speech categories; 7. Semantic categories; 8. Swearing, identity and discourse markers; 9. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'An engaging, in depth look at British and American English. In addition, Baker demonstrates a range of methods for analyzing language at many levels, and for contextualizing the results.' Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University