The third level in the Oxford Practice Grammar series. Grammar structures are explained in depth with practice activities that stretch your language skills. Oxford Practice Grammar knows that students need different types of explanation and practice at each stage of their study....

Further grammar practice specifically designed for advanced learners. Supplementary exercises which provide extra practice of important points in English grammar covered in Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced....

Discourse analysis is a term which has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines....

This is a book designed to help teachers understand English grammar and explain it to their students. Each chapter focuses on a problematic area, for example \'Articles\', \'Conditionals\', and \'Direct and indirect speech\', and includes exercises for the reader and teaching ideas....

Discourse analysis is a term which has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines....

This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts, such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study....

This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language....

Teaching the Spoken Language is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author\'s important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. The authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose....

Designed for beginners, this best-selling textbook provides a lively introduction to the study of language. Starting from the basics, it provides a solid foundation in all of the essential topics, and introduces the analysis of the key elements of language - sounds, words, structures and meanings....

This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise......