Communicative grammar: analysis of the words “how ever" in the lob corpus

The present analysis of the word however, as a practical rather than theoretical activity, draws on insights from everyday talk and information from both native speakers of English and EFL students as well as from the invaluable help of mainly “A Communicative Grammar of English”1 , “A Grammar of Co...

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Autores:
Rodríguez R., Elizabeth
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2000
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/25475
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/25475
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/16512/
Palabra clave:
TEFL
ESP
Applied Linguistics
Rights
openAccess
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Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:The present analysis of the word however, as a practical rather than theoretical activity, draws on insights from everyday talk and information from both native speakers of English and EFL students as well as from the invaluable help of mainly “A Communicative Grammar of English”1 , “A Grammar of Contemporary English”2 and above all, “A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language” .3 The emphasis in this analysis is, therefore, on the meanings and uses of the word however (semantics and pragmatics) rather than on its syntax. Nevertheless, this aspect of the language underlying however is also taken into consideration.