1st Edition

Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies

By P R Hawkins Copyright 1975
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1977, Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies reports on the results of a grammatical analysis of the speech of a large sample (about 300) of five-year-old middle- and working-class children. The author is concerned in particular to answer the questions: What is the relationship, within certain restricted contexts, between the use of particular grammatical... Read more

Foreword General Introduction Part I Part II 1. Framework of the research 2. The reference categories 3. Nouns 4. Modifiers 5. Qualifiers 6. Nominal group heads, other than nouns and pronouns 7. First- and second- person pronouns 8. Tag clauses 9. Discussion and conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index

Biography

P. R. Hawkins