A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation

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A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation is the first full-length treatment of American punctuation that is descriptive rather than prescriptive. The book has two purposes: to detail the relationship between punctuation and linguistic structure (syntax, prosody, semantics, and pragmatics) and to describe how this relationship affected the practice of punctuation in a collection of written texts taken from the Brown University Corpus of American English.

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Charles Frederik Meyer

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«...part of a new direction in linguistic and grammatical study which avoids formalism for formalism's sake and seeks instead to help us understand the phenomena of language.» (Francis Hubbard, Marquette University)
«...a lucid, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of this subject. It should be required reading for those teaching or conducting research in writing. In addition, it will be of particular interest to researchers in reading, ESL, and discourse analysis.» (Frank Parker, Louisiana State University) «I read this book with a growing interest, not realizing at first that punctuation could be such a fascinating subject. Not only does Meyer give an excellent overview of punctuation as an integrated system, he also provides useful general rules specifying where punctuation marks would be appropriate in a particular context.» (Anna-Brita Stenström, I Came Journal)
«The technical layout and presentation is very good. ... The book provides a wealth of information and contributes substantially to our understanding of punctuation.» (Angelika Bergien, CCE Newsletter)

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