Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
22/10/2008 - 14:15 Europe/Prague
Nakladatelství Cambridge University Press ve spolupráci s Katedrou anglického jazyka a literatury Pedagogické fakulty MU a Katedrou anglického jazyka a literatury Pedagogické Fakulty UK si Vás dovolují pozvat na seminář pro učitele angličtiny The Changing English Language 2000-2010 Seminář povede: Ronald Carter
BRNO: 21.10. 2008, 14:00 – 15:00 Pedagogická fakulta MU, Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury, Poříčí 9/11, Brno, místnost č.50 – aula v přízemí PRAHA: 22.10. 2008, 13:00 – 14:00 Pedagogická fakulta UK, Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury, Celená 13, Praha 1, místnost C1, druhé patro The Changing English Language 2000-2010 The talk will look at a corpus of English to explore the most frequent words and grammatical structures in spoken and written English and to assess how the English language is changing. Among the topics discussed will be: the relationship between language change and social patterns; the importance of small words; differences between British and American English and new research into spoken English grammar. Examples will be drawn from the 1 billion-word Cambridge International Corpus of English. Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham. He has written and edited more than 50 books and has published over 100 academic papers in the fields of literary-linguistics, language and education, applied linguistics and the teaching of English. He has taught, lectured and given consultancies to government agencies and ministries in the field of language education in over thirty countries world-wide. In the UK he has worked closely with UK government agencies on English in the National Curriculum and the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum and is currently part-seconded to the DfES (UK Ministry of Education) as linguistic advisor on Basic Skills, Literacy and ESOL. Recent books include: Exploring Grammar in Context (with Rebecca Hughes and Michael McCarthy) (CUP, 2000); The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ed with David Nunan) (CUP, 2001) Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk (Routledge, 2004). In 2006 Cambridge Grammar of English: A Comprehensive Guide to Spoken and Written Grammar and Usage (with Michael McCarthy) was published and in 2007 Cambridge Grammar of English won the British Council English Language Innovation Award. Professor Carter is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a fellow of the British Academy for Social Sciences and was chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics from 2003-2006 Na seminář je nutno se registrovat na emailu prague [at] cambridge [dot] org Účast na semináři je zdarma.
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