Complex Interrelations In Business English Communication
Business English shall at a point imply introduction of more specific material not as much in what the linguistic part is concerned but more precisely in concording some language structures with the particular activities involved by the sophisticated busi
The Language of Meetings
1. The Language of Meetings 2. Presenting an Argument 3. Opinions 4. Agreeing and Disagreeing 5. Interrupting 6. Clarifying 7. Questioning 8. Proposals 9. Persuading 10. Degrees of Importance and Certainty 11. Compromising 12. Procedure for a Formal Meeting 13. Getting It All Together
Looking for regional words in late seventeenth-century England: Bishop White Kennett and his glossary to Parochial Antiquities (1695) 1
The analysis of regional dialects in the Early Modern period has commonly been disregarded in favour of an ample scholarly interest in the ‘authorised’ version of English which came to be eventually established as a standard. The history of regional ‘Englishes’ at this time still remains to a very great extent in oblivion, owing mainly to an apparent dearth of direct textual evidence which might provide trustworthy data. Research in this field has been for the most part focused on phonological, orthographical and morphological traits by virtue of the rather more abundant information that dialect testimonies yield about them. Regional lexical diversity has, on the contrary, deserved no special attention as uncertainty arises with regard to what was provincially restricted and what was not. This paper endeavours to offer additional data to the gloomy lexical setting of Early Modern regional English. It is our aim to give a descriptive account of the dialect words collated by Bishop White Kennett’s glossary to Parochial Antiquities (1695). This underutilised specimen does actually widen the information furnished by other well known canonical word-lists and provides concrete geographical data that might contribute to bridging the gaps still existing in the history of lexical provincialisms at the time.