A Grammar of Speech
A Grammar of Speech

Author: David Brazil

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780194371933

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This fresh analysis of spoken English grammar is based on the observation of naturally-occurring speech, rather than deriving from inappropriate pre-existing written models.

The King's Speech
The King's Speech

Author: Mark Logue

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2010-11-25

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0857384147

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Lionel Logue was a self-taught and almost unknown Australian speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love for Mrs Simpson. The King's Speech is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between Logue and the haunted future King George VI, written with Logue's grandson and drawing exclusively from his grandfather Lionel's diaries and archive. This is an astonishing insight into the House of Windsor at the time of its greatest crisis. Never before has there been such a portrait of the British monarchy seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.

A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse
A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse

Author: Gerard O'Grady

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1441174443

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David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and tests the description of used language against a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates the added communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar. O'Grady reviews the literature and covers the theory before moving on to a practical, analytic section. His final chapter reviews the arguments, maps the road ahead and lays out the practical applications of the grammar. The book will be of great interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.

Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech

Author: Arthur Quinn

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1880393026

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.