The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. Expansion of the area of English language teaching, with entries such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ELT, English Language Arts, English Medium Instruction (EMI), and a substantial revision of the entry on Language Teaching.Updated information on linguistic theory, including new entries on conversation analysis, ecolinguistics, functional grammars, and multimodality.
Expansion of the area of English language teaching, with entries such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ELT, English Language Arts, English Medium Instruction (EMI), and substantial revision of the entry on Language Teaching.Heavily expanded coverage of the effect of technology on the English language, in new entries such as blog, Computer-Mediated Communication, digital literacy, online language play, social networking sites, Virtual Learning Environment, and Web 1.0 and 2.0.Increased focus on the international perspective, with new entries including African American English, China English, English as an Additional Language (EAL), multicultural London English, superdiversity, and translanguaging, and significant expansion of other relevant entries.Over 1,400 fascinating, readable A to Z entries on all aspects of the English language, including more than 130 new entries.Second Edition Edited by Tom McArthur, Jacqueline Lam-McArthur, and Lise Fontaine Oxford Quick Reference
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