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Willis J. Edmondson,Juliane House, Universität Hamburg and the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics,Daniel Z. Kadar, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China and Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
Chapter 1 introduces the background, scope and objectives of this interactional pedagogic grammar of English. A ‘grammar’ is commonly understood as a body of rules concerning the relations between different parts of sentences of a language. We are attempting to describe language in use, such that we are interested in what speakers do with it when they talk to each other, hence pursuing an essentially pragmatic approach to language.The chapter also summarises the contents of the book and the transcription conventions.
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