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19/05/2008, 08:53 PM
Professor Henry Widdowson is an internationally acclaimed authority in applied linguistics and language teaching. His many books, articles, and lectures have been seminal in establishing both the field of applied linguistics and its mode of enquiry.
He is the Applied Linguistics adviser to Oxford University Press and series adviser of Oxford Bookworms Collection. He is also co-editor of Language Teaching: A Scheme for Teacher Education and the series editor of Oxford Introductions to Language Study and the author of Linguistics in the same series.
His latest work, Defining Issues in English Language Teaching, appears in the Oxford Applied Linguistics series alongside several other of his titles, including Teaching Language as Communication, Practical Stylistics, Learning Purpose and Language Use, and Explorations in Applied Linguistics 1 and 2.
Professor Henry Widdowson is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of London, and has also been Professor of Applied Linguistics at Essex University and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna.
'[Widdowson is] a theorist of language and language teaching. His extensive writings have addressed the most significant areas in the field.'
'Widdowson consistently defends clear-thinking and clear presentation of ideas. For international ESOL, he has probably been the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century.'
Christopher Brumfit, Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning
An Applied Linguistic Approach To Discourse Analysis
Unpublished Ph.D. thesis by H.G. Widdowson, Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, May 1973
Overview
For about thirty years, H. G. Widdowson has been one of the most influential figures in applied linguistics. He has greatly contributed to the development of this emerging discipline, whose present form he has shaped to a very considerable extent. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching und Learning calls him ¿probably the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century for international ESOL" (674).
In over 150 publications, including about a dozen books, he has consistently championed rigorous thinking and explicit debate in applied linguistics. His extensive oeuvre has been a significant influence on most areas of the field such as discourse analysis, stylistics, English for specific purposes, and communicative language teaching.
Many of the ideas elaborated in these publications can be traced back to his Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of 1973, which also anticipated much of the subsequent development of discourse analysis and Widdowson's own approach to this area of enquiry. Had it been published in the early 1970s, it would now count as one of the classics of early discourse analysis. As it was, it only became known to a small circle of colleagues, in whose works some of his ideas were taken up in one form or another. In the preface to his most recent book, Text, context, pretext (2004), H. G. Widdowson explicitly mentions that many of the ideas developed there go back to his Ph.D. thesis.
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, this Ph.D. thesis available to download here makes a classic linguistic text accessible to a wider public for the first time and meets a demand frequently expressed by students and scholars alike. It is hoped that this edition will make more widely known just how far advanced H. G. Widdowson¿s early thinking was on many of the topics developed in his later work.
Contents (PDF, 115 KB)
Chapter 1 Introduction: applied linguistic approaches (PDF, 133 KB)
Chapter 2 The scope and application of grammar (PDF, 184 KB)
Chapter 3 Extending the scope: de-standardization (PDF, 198 KB)
Chapter 4 Extending the scope: contextualization (PDF, 159 KB)
Chapter 5 Extending the scope: semantics and pragmatics (PDF, 202 KB)
Chapter 6 Linguistic signification and rhetorical value (PDF, 211 KB)
Chapter 7 Illocutionary acts in discourse (PDF, 232 KB)
Chapter 8 The rhetorical function of transformational rules (PDF, 203 KB)
Chapter 9 Theoretical values (PDF, 153 KB)
Chapter 10 Pedagogic application (PDF, 151 KB)
Bibliography (PDF, 114 KB)
Clik the link below if you are unable to open and/or download the files.
My compliments!
Prof. Dinha T. Gorgis
http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/guidance_articles/discourse_analysis?cc=global
He is the Applied Linguistics adviser to Oxford University Press and series adviser of Oxford Bookworms Collection. He is also co-editor of Language Teaching: A Scheme for Teacher Education and the series editor of Oxford Introductions to Language Study and the author of Linguistics in the same series.
His latest work, Defining Issues in English Language Teaching, appears in the Oxford Applied Linguistics series alongside several other of his titles, including Teaching Language as Communication, Practical Stylistics, Learning Purpose and Language Use, and Explorations in Applied Linguistics 1 and 2.
Professor Henry Widdowson is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of London, and has also been Professor of Applied Linguistics at Essex University and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna.
'[Widdowson is] a theorist of language and language teaching. His extensive writings have addressed the most significant areas in the field.'
'Widdowson consistently defends clear-thinking and clear presentation of ideas. For international ESOL, he has probably been the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century.'
Christopher Brumfit, Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning
An Applied Linguistic Approach To Discourse Analysis
Unpublished Ph.D. thesis by H.G. Widdowson, Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, May 1973
Overview
For about thirty years, H. G. Widdowson has been one of the most influential figures in applied linguistics. He has greatly contributed to the development of this emerging discipline, whose present form he has shaped to a very considerable extent. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching und Learning calls him ¿probably the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century for international ESOL" (674).
In over 150 publications, including about a dozen books, he has consistently championed rigorous thinking and explicit debate in applied linguistics. His extensive oeuvre has been a significant influence on most areas of the field such as discourse analysis, stylistics, English for specific purposes, and communicative language teaching.
Many of the ideas elaborated in these publications can be traced back to his Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of 1973, which also anticipated much of the subsequent development of discourse analysis and Widdowson's own approach to this area of enquiry. Had it been published in the early 1970s, it would now count as one of the classics of early discourse analysis. As it was, it only became known to a small circle of colleagues, in whose works some of his ideas were taken up in one form or another. In the preface to his most recent book, Text, context, pretext (2004), H. G. Widdowson explicitly mentions that many of the ideas developed there go back to his Ph.D. thesis.
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, this Ph.D. thesis available to download here makes a classic linguistic text accessible to a wider public for the first time and meets a demand frequently expressed by students and scholars alike. It is hoped that this edition will make more widely known just how far advanced H. G. Widdowson¿s early thinking was on many of the topics developed in his later work.
Contents (PDF, 115 KB)
Chapter 1 Introduction: applied linguistic approaches (PDF, 133 KB)
Chapter 2 The scope and application of grammar (PDF, 184 KB)
Chapter 3 Extending the scope: de-standardization (PDF, 198 KB)
Chapter 4 Extending the scope: contextualization (PDF, 159 KB)
Chapter 5 Extending the scope: semantics and pragmatics (PDF, 202 KB)
Chapter 6 Linguistic signification and rhetorical value (PDF, 211 KB)
Chapter 7 Illocutionary acts in discourse (PDF, 232 KB)
Chapter 8 The rhetorical function of transformational rules (PDF, 203 KB)
Chapter 9 Theoretical values (PDF, 153 KB)
Chapter 10 Pedagogic application (PDF, 151 KB)
Bibliography (PDF, 114 KB)
Clik the link below if you are unable to open and/or download the files.
My compliments!
Prof. Dinha T. Gorgis
http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/guidance_articles/discourse_analysis?cc=global