16.2939, Books: Applied Ling/T ext/Corpus Ling, English: R ömer

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Date: 05-Oct-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: Römer 

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:55:24
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: Römer 

Title: Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy 
Subtitle: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts
and didactics

Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 18  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2018 

Author: Ute Römer, University of Hanover

Hardback: ISBN: 9027222894 Pages: xiv + 328 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027222894 Pages: xiv + 328 Price: U.S. $ 156.00

Abstract:

This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in
'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general
linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic
comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the
largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus
of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual
language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of
progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical
lexical-grammatical patterns. On the basis of these differences, a number
of pedagogical implications are derived, the integration of which then
leads to a first draft of an innovative concept of teaching progressives -
a concept which responds to three key criteria in pedagogical description:
typicality, authenticity, and communicative utility. The analysis also
demonstrates that many existing accounts of the progressive are
inappropriate in several respects and that not enough attention is being
paid to lexical-grammatical relations. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  xiii  
1. Introduction: A need to take stock of progressives  1-6  
2. The theoretical basis of the study: Corpora, contexts, didactics  7-18  
3. Progressives in theoretical studies and grammars of English  19-36  
4. Progressives in spoken British English  37-170  
5. Progressive teaching(?): Progressives in the German EFL classroom  171-242  
6. Progressives in real spoken English and in "school" English: A
comparison  243-273  
7. Pedagogical implications: True facts, textbooks, teaching  275-291  
8. Conclusions: Corpus, practice, theory  293-298  
Notes  299-307  
References  309-324  
Index  325-327  

"Ute Römer analyses massive quantities of real speech to reveal not only
the variation which traditional linguistics assigns to dialects, but also
the variation which is a common everyday feature of Standard English
speech. Ute Römer is perfectly positioned and qualified to remain in the
forefront of English corpus linguistics." 
Prof. Rainer Schulze, University of Hanover, Germany 

"Römer's book shows that the traditional separation into grammar on the one
hand, and the lexicon on the other doesn't do justice to the complexity of
the data. The progressive is not a uniform grammatical phenomenon, but
partly lexically driven."
Prof. Bernhard Kettemann, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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