21.1692, Sum: Relationship Between Spoken and Written Grammar

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Date: 05-Apr-2010
From: Mark Brenchley < schlemihl at gmail.com >
Subject: Relationship Between Spoken and Written Grammar

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:28:26
From: Mark Brenchley [schlemihl at gmail.com]
Subject: Relationship Between Spoken and Written Grammar

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Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 21.876                                                                                                                                                

Two months back, I submitted a query to The LINGUIST List, 
requesting information on the relationship between speech and writing. 
Unsurprisingly, responses from The LINGUIST List were swift, allowing 
me to put together a small but useful bibliography of texts. That 
bibliography is detailed below, and the texts are sorted below 
according to subject: 1.) Texts on Spoken Language, 2.) Texts on 
Spoken and Written Language, and 3.) Texts on Written Language.

1.) Texts on Spoken Language:
Aijmer, K. (1996) Conversational Routines in English - Covention and 
Creativity. London: Longman.

Brazil, D. (1995) A Grammar of Speech. Oxford: OUP.

Brown, G. (1977) Listening to Spoken English. London: Longman.

Brown, G. (1996) Speakers, Listeners & Communication - Explorations 
in Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: CUP.

Bublitz, W. (1988) Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative 
Conversations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Carter, R. & McCarthy, M. (1997) Exploring Spoken English.	
Cambridge: CUP.

Coulmas, R. (1981) Conversational Routine - Explorations in Standard 
Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech. Den Haag: 
Mouton.

Miller, J. & Weinert, R. (1998) Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax 
and Discourse. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, QCA (2004) An Introduction to 
the Grammar of Talk. London: QCA.

2.) Texts on Spoken and Written Language:
Aijmer, K. (2004) Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora. 
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Biber, D. (1988) Variation Across Speech and Writing. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press.

Biber, D. (1995) Dimensions of Register Variation. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press.

Biber, D. & Finegan, E. (1989) Drift and the Evolution of English Style - 
A History of Three Genres. Language 65(3); pp 487-517.

Biber, D. & Finegan, E. (1994) Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register. 
Oxford: OUP.

Biber, D., Conrad, S. & Reppen, R. (1998) Register Variation and 
English for Specific Purposes, in Corpus Linguistics: Investigating 
Language Structure & Use. Cambridge: CUP; pp 135-171.

Biber, D., Finegan, E., Johansson, S., Conrad, S. & Leech, G. (1999) 
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.

Chafe, W. (1982) Integration and Involvement in Speaking, Writing and 
Literature. in Tannen, D. (ed) Spoken and Written Language: Exploring 
Orality and Literacy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Chafe, W. (1994) Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and 
Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. 
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Halliday, M. K. A. (1985) Spoken & Written Language. Geelong: Deakin 
University Press.

Myhill, D. (2009) From Talking to Writing: Linguistic Development in 
Writing. British Journal of Educational Psychology Monograph Series II 
(6); pp 27-44. 

Quirke et al. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English 
Language. London: Longman.

Scholes, R. J. (1993) Literacy and Language Analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: 
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Spolsky, B. & Hult, F. M. (2010) The Handbook of Educational 
Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Tannen, D. (1982) Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality 
and Literacy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Tannen, D. (1986) Languages and Linguistics - The Interdependence 
of Theory, Data, and Application. Georgetown University Press.

3.) Texts on Written Language:
Haegeman, L. (1987) Register Variation in English - Some Theoretical 
Observations. Journal of English Linguistics 20; pp 230-248.

Haegeman, L. (1987) Complexity and Literary Prose - Some 
Suggestions for Formalization. Language and Style 20; pp 214-222.

Haegeman, L. (2006) Subject Omission in Present-Day Written English 
- On The Theoretical Relevance of Peripheral Data. Revista di 
Grammatica Generativa 31.

Kaur, M. (in press) Syntactical Analysis of Learner Corpus.

Knoch, U. (2010) Diagnostic Writing Assessment. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Linell, P. (2005) The Written Language Bias in Linguistics. Oxon: 
Routledge.

Massey, A. J. & Elliott, G. L. (1996) Aspects of Writing in 16+ English 
Examinations between 1980 and 1994. Cambridge: University of 
Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate.

Myhill, D. (2008) Towards a Linguistic Model of Sentence Development 
in Writing	Language & Education 22(5); pp 271-288.

Olson, D. R. (1985) Literacy, Language,and Learning: The Nature and 
Consequences of Reading and Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press.

Pontecorvo, C. (1997) Writing Development. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: 
John Benjamins.

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, QCA (1999) Improving Writing. 
London: QCA.

Verhoeven, L. (1994) Functional Literacy: Theoretical Issues and 
Educational Implications. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Overall, there does not appear to be much contemporary research into 
the developing relationship between speech and writing within 
education, though Debra Myhill at Exeter is an exception. I also note 
that one of the respondees, Katharina Schwabl, is about to start a PhD 
at the University of Graz into preschool knowledge of linguistic variation 
between spoken and written language. Manvender Kaur has also 
supplied an interesting paper offering an intuitive analysis of corpora 
using part-of-speech tagging, which may prove useful.

Many thanks to all those who took the time to reply to my query. In 
particular, I would like to say thank you to the following individuals:  
Chris Cleirigh, Bruce D. Despain, Zenzi M. Griffin, Hilary Franklin, 
Liliane Haegeman, Manvender Kaur, Natalia Kotsyba, James Li, Philip 
McCarthy, Chad D. Nilep, Cornelia Pareskevas, Aleyz Rouchdy, Doris 
Schonefeld, Thorsten Schroter, Katharina Schwabl, and William 
Sullivan. 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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