English
for Academic Purposes | 2019/20
Writing Point website (CJP FSV UK).
Writing Point Blog
11 October
Portmanteaus in English
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky.
Oscar Wilde, A few maxims for the instruction of the over-educated.
English proverbs (Phrasefinder)
Portmantreau proverbs.
Portmantreau coinages.
Steven Pinker, Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century ( Royal Institution lecture)
18 October
Proverb sets for perverberation.
English proverbs listed by keyword (Wikiquote).
Perverberations
Robert Frost, Mending Wall.
Harry Mathews, Shore Leave
Perverbs
25 October
Common trinomials (Wikipedia).
English trinomials exercises.
Swales' CaRS model of research paper introductions.
Manchester Univ. Academic Phrasebank
Hartshorne, J., Tenenbaum, J., B., & Pinker, S., A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers (Cognition, 2018)
Scare quotes (2016, The Atlantic)
pushing the envelope
1 November
Word golf
Lewis Carroll, Doublets, a Word-Puzzle, 1879. The Doublet Puzzle (Psychology Today).
Word Ladders, including Sam Loyd and Thomas Edison's The Puzzling Billboard, 1917.
A. Sekula, On the invention of photographic meaning (1974, in V. Burgin (ed.), Thinking Photography, 1982 - whole article)
tall story
8 November
Prepositions in set phrases of body and self
hed over heels, (origin of the phrase).
15 November
Theme-rheme patterns
A. Dowling, Thematic progression as a functional resource in analysing texts.
22 November
since vs. because vs. as (Merriam-Webster Usage Notes)
etymology of with, under (see also understand)
between or among (Merriam-Webster)
29 November
Frequentatives
Voldemorting (wired.com)
gormless
6 December
Verbs taking bare infinitives,
Hear, see, make, let, allow + object + verb form, to+infinitive or bare infinitive (BBC World Service Learning English),
Hear, see, etc. + object + infinitive or -ing
(Cambridge Dictionary Grammar)
Use of the bare infinitive (EnglishGrammar.org).
13 December
Front pages (Guardian)
tory, What's in a name? (BBC).
on yer bike
Extract 3 (Lock, Functional Grammar).
Etta James, I'd rather go blind.
Billy Boy (American folk song, "bid to")
20 December
Prepositions introducing absolute and picked up themes
with regard to/ regarding (BBC)
10 January
Frequentatives redux
J. Berger, The Case Against Us,
P. Bruegel the Elder, Fall of Icarus
complacent/ complaisant
J. Berger, Ways of Seeing (BBC, 1972), About Time (Channel 4, 1985).
J. Berger and S. Sontag, To Tell a Story (Channel 4, Voices, 1983)