Author : Michael Lewis
9780906717998
176 Pages Paperback
1st Edition
©1993, Published
Request a SampleTHE LEXICAL APPROACH develops current thinking, synthesizing the best insights of previous theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and modern approaches to grammar.
Principles of THE LEXICAL APPROACH include:the grammar, vocabulary dichotomy is invalid; collocation is used as an organizing principle; successful language is a wider concept than accurate language; the Observe-Hypothesize-Experiment cycle replaces the Present-Practice-Produce paradigm; and, most i ...more