A Survey of Modern English

By Michael Pátzold, Stephan Gramley, Michael P?tzold

A Survey of Modern English covers a wide selection of aspects of the modern English language. Fully revised and updated, the major focus of the third edition lies in Standard American and British English individually and in comparison with each other. Over and beyond that, this volume treats other Englishes around the world, especially those of the southern hemisphere countries of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as well as numerous varieties spoken in southern, eastern and western Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The main areas of investigation and interest include:

pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary;

multiple facets of English dialects and sociolects with an emphasis on gender and ethnicity;

questions of pragmatics as well as a longer look at English-related pidgin and creole varieties.

This authoritative guide is a comprehensive, scholarly, and systematic review of modern English. In one volume, the book presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender, and ethnic variations. This is complemented with an updated general bibliography and with exercises at the end of each chapter and their suggested solutions at the end of the volume, all intended to provide students and other interested readers with helpful resources.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367281473
• ISBN13: 9780367281472
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Best book I've ever read.

Divided into three parts, this book sets up the stage, by discussing many of the topics which you might image that you would find in a book on english; grammar, phonetics, morphology, and syntax. But it goes on to do something amazing, which is to be expected from a book which appraises the use, users, geography and variation of the superhuman entity that is Modern English. All of the features of this 500-page book read like a good novel. Even topics as traditionaly boring as grammar will come to life, with recent examples of descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) grammar. The people who could use this book are linguists or people who wish to learn about the language which has more non-native speakers than indigenous ones. If you do, however, fit these very minor prerequisites and have not yet come into contact with this book, I urge you to buy it at once (if you don't mind paperback). You will find that this book makes an extremely valuable addition to your library.Dr. Stephan Gramley is Senior Lecturer of English and Dr. Michael Pätzold is professor at Bielefeld University. Routledge is irrefutably the foremost publisher in the areas of intrinsic Linguistics and Philosophy.