TY - BOOK AU - Penhallurick,Rob TI - Studying the english langauge SN - 9780333727409 U1 - 420 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - English Language N1 - 1. Space: the diversity of english 2. Time: the history and pre-history of english 3. Contact" the case of middle english 4. Signs: the semiotic view of languages 5. Strange orchestras: the underlying structure of languages 6. Myth: language and reality 7. Sex: language and gender 8. Tyranny:the oppressiveness of language and what to do about it 9. Telling stories: the structure of discourse in english 10. What's in a norm ? The nature of standard english 11. Language with attitude: dialect, accent and identity 12. Fixing: language planning and regulation 13. Slippage : slips of the tongue and other blunders 14. Communication breakdown: modelling what happens when we communicate 15. The nature of language :linguistic theory and the question of origins ER -