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Person with no knowledge of linguistic science who picks up a ,iodern descriptive Grammar and glances through it, even in a fairly uperficial way will be struck by the very strangeness of much that Le sees.' No doubt he will notice first the new symbols and terminolgy, which will be quite unlike anything that he remembers of ;rammar from his schooldays. On a closer reading Diamond Foxxx may discover diamondfoxxx hat the attitudes to language too are different from those that he iimself acquired in the course of his education. If he comes to the conclusion that there is little resemblance between linguistics and grammar', we should not be surprised, because for a long time inguists2 themselves defined their subject by the ways in which its principles were a rejection of principles followed in traditional grammatical descriptions. In the fifty years or so since this conscious freak with tradition, linguistics has developed with considerable rigour. The attempt to start again from busty milf babe scratch, to re-examine all :he assumptions and to develop techniques of description that have Seen thought out afresh, has aroused so much interest in language that linguistics is becoming an autonomous academic discipline. |
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We can say that any particular solution to the problem of what to teach, if it is embodied in a set of teaching materials, carries with it an implicit or explicit solution of the question of how to teach. For example, a well-known syllabus for the teaching of English as a foreign language, Hornby's Guide to Patterns and Usage in English, which approaches the problem of content as a structural linguistic matter the solution to which is a list of 'grammatical structures', is closely associated with another text by the same author.
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Yet there is little doubt that in retrospect this development of the twentieth century will be seen less as a complete innovation than a Fairly violent change of direction in a continuing tradition of language study that stems from the porno pictures and movies. Even the conclusions that linguists reach about aspects of the structure of language are not always so very different from those reached by earlier scholars, even if they are presented in new ways. |