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... readers may not be familiar , and I explain them here in order to facilitate reading this book . In linguistics ... readers that , in my judg- ment , a given word , phrase , or sentence doesn't occur in a language ( for example ...
... readers may not be familiar , and I explain them here in order to facilitate reading this book . In linguistics ... readers that , in my judg- ment , a given word , phrase , or sentence doesn't occur in a language ( for example ...
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... readers use structural cues to guess at suppressed information . The purpose of my analysis is to show readers how to be self - conscious about their linguistic activities . When we are involved as listeners or readers in the creation ...
... readers use structural cues to guess at suppressed information . The purpose of my analysis is to show readers how to be self - conscious about their linguistic activities . When we are involved as listeners or readers in the creation ...
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... readers can follow the writer's topic shifts . 10.23 Middle East harems are inherited .... Not every potentate's son is glad of that . The youth bequeathed a houseful of heavyweights , did not always admire his father's choices . In ...
... readers can follow the writer's topic shifts . 10.23 Middle East harems are inherited .... Not every potentate's son is glad of that . The youth bequeathed a houseful of heavyweights , did not always admire his father's choices . In ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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