Complete English Language for Cambridge International AS & A Level
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Description
Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
9780198445807
Contents
AS Level
1 Introduction to AS Level English Language
→ How will I be assessed?
2 A toolbox for textual analysis
→ Genre and context
→ Voice and point of view
→ Structure, form and cohesion
→ Lexis and diction
→ Style, register and tone
→ Grammar
→ Metaphorical language
→ Spoken and written language
→ Conclusion
3 Language issues
→ Advertising
→ Language and attitides
→ Language change and variation
→ English, the internet, and electronic communication
→ Diaries, autobiographies and biographies
→ Conclusion
4 Paper 1: Reading
→ Section A: Directed response – what’s involved?
→ How am I going to tackle the questions?
→ Sample questions
→ Section B: Text analysis – what’s involved?
→ How am I going to tackle the question?
→ Worked examples
→ Conclusion
5 Paper 2: Writing
→ Section A: Shorter writing and reflective commentary – what’s involved?
→ How am I going to tackle the questions?
→ Writing your reflective commentary
→ Section B: Extended writing – what’s involved?
→ How am I going to tackle the question?
→ Route 1: Imaginative writing/descriptive writing
→ Route 2: Review/critical writing
→ Route 3: Discursive/argumentative writing
→ Conclusion
6 Conclusion to AS Level
A Level
7 Introduction to A Level English Language
→ How will I be assessed?
8 Language change
→ Language change and general knowledge
→ Language change and linguistic knowledge
→ Semantic change
→ How to deal with language data
→ Making simple observations and more complex inferences from language data
→ Language change at word-level and beyond
→ Searching the internet for language change data
→ Exploring n-gram graphs and corpus data
→ Context and collocate searches
→ Conclusion
9 Child Language Acquisition
→ Transcripts of children’s spoken language
→ Spoken language in a written form
→ Analysing spoken language
→ Different kinds of research
→ Reinforcement and revision
10 English in the world
→ A reminder
→ English in the world: the global language?
→ Models of World English(es)
→ Historical factors and government attitudes: language planning
→ Finding ideas and examples
→ Prestige
→ Language contact: pidgins and creoles
→ Negative effects of the spread of English in the world
→ Language revitalisation
→ Professor David Crystal
→ Conclusion
11 Language and the self
→ A reminder
→ Child language acquisition and the self
→ Language of thought hypothesis (LOTH)
→ Linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism: the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis
→ Playing a series of parts → roles → functions
→ Politeness strategies and ‘face’
→ Co-operative principle and Grice’s maxims
→ Morphology
→ Language and gender
→ Official language policies
→ Stereotypes, covert sexism and ‘deviance’
→ Language varieties and identity
→ Conclusion
12 Papers 3 and 4: Exam technique and preparation
→ A question of balance
→ Responding to a text in an exam (1): text-types, grouping and planning
→ Responding to a text in an exam (2): quantitative language data
→ Responding to a text in an exam (3): transcriptions
→ Responding to a text in an exam (4): 400–500 words of text in Paper 4
→ Responding to a text in an exam (5): multi-purpose texts and ‘overlap’
→ The future of English
→ Conclusion
13 Sample questions and answers
→ Paper 3, Section A: Language change
→ Paper 3, Section B: Child language acquisition
→ Paper 4, Section A: English in the world
→ Paper 4, Section B: Language and the self
Glossary
Key reading list
Index
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