Ronald Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Spoken Grammar: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
This article synthesises progress made in the description of spoken (especially conversational) grammar over the 20 years since the authors published a paper in this journal arguing for a re-thinking of grammatical description and pedagogy based on spoken corpus evidence. We begin with a glance back at the 16th century and the teaching of Latin grammar in England, with its emphasis on speaking the target language. Later grammars were dominated by…
Stylistics and real readers
Stylistics has long claimed to be an empirical method of literary analysis. One aspect of this empiricism is stylistics’ commitment to studying the effect of texts on readers. Short (1996, p. 6) emphasises the reader-centred nature of stylistics, stating that researchers in the fi eld are ‘profoundly interested in the rules and procedures which we, as readers, intuitively know and apply in order to understand what we read’. In reality, however, s…
The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners' acquisition of collocations
The study investigated L 2 learners' acquisition of verb‐noun and adjective‐noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining ). L 1 P olish learners of E nglish as a foreign language were exposed to infrequent collocations embedded in stories that were read during three consecutive weeks. Their collocational competence was subsequently assessed in a battery o…
Seeing through The Bell Jar: Investigating Linguistic Patterns of Psychological Disorder
Capturing context for heterogeneous corpus analysis: Some first steps
Heterogeneous corpora are emergent multi-modal datasets which comprise a variety of different records of everyday communication, from SMS/MMS messages to interactions in virtual environments, and from GPS data to phone and video calls. By tracking a person’s specific (inter)actions over time and place, the analysis of such “ubiquitous” corpora enables more detailed investigations of the interface between different communicative modes. This paper …
Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Discourse of `transformational leadership' in infection control
The article explores the impact of the `transformational leadership' style in the role of modern matron with regards to infection control practices. Policy and guidance on the modern matron role suggest that it is distinctive in its combination of management and clinical components, and in its reliance on transformational leadership. Senior nurses are therefore expected to motivate staff by creating high expectations, modelling appropriate behavi…
From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching
From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular reference to the development of corpus-informed pedagogy. The book explains how corpora can be designed and used, and focuses on what they tell us about language teaching. It examines the relevance of corpora…
Literature and language teaching 1986–2006: A review
For Christopher Brumfit (1940–2006) The teaching of literature can thus be seen as a means of introducing learners to such a serious view of our world, of initiating them in the process of defining themselves through contact with others’ experience. How it is best done, what the relationship between ‘reading’ and ‘literature’ needs to be for the greatest number of people to be led to literature, exactly what books are appropriate at what levels –…
Cantonese e-discourse: A new hybrid variety of English
While English remains the most dominant language used on the Internet, studies have primarily investigated computer-mediated interactions in English. Little linguistic research has, however, investigated how English and other languages interact online. Based on a 20,000-word corpus of private ICQ (‘I Seek You’) data, this paper analyses the online linguistic strategies and features of eighteen NNS university students from Hong Kong studying in Br…
Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse
John Sinclair is one of the major figures in applied linguistics and his work is essential study for students. This accessible book collects in one volume Sinclair's key papers on written discourse structure, lexis structure, phraseology, corpus structure and linguistic theory from the 1990s to the present.
There's millions of them: Hyperbole in Everyday Conversation
Language and Creativity
Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as canonical literature and the discourse of advertising. In Language and Creativity Ronald Carter analyses naturally-occurring spoken language to reveal that ordinary people in everyday speech contexts demonstrate creative capacities for sensitivity to th…
The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language is edited by two leading figures in TESOL, it contains 30 chapters written by internationally recognised language teaching professionals and applied linguists. Current topics in TESOL are examined and future developments mapped out in an accessible but comprehensive way. The book helps define TESOL and provides an excellent introduction for future language teaching professional…
Size Isn't Everything: Spoken English, Corpus, and the Classroom
In recent papers and books, we have reported some of the findings of our research into the grammatical characteristics of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) (Carter, Hughes, & McCarthy, 1998; Carter & McCarthy, 1995, 1997a, 1997b; Hughes & McCarthy, 1998; McCarthy, 1998, 1999, 2001; McCarthy & Carter, 1994, 1995). CANCODE was established at the School of English Studies at University of Nottingham, in the United…
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland
The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. Accompanying language notes explore the interrelationships between language and literature, emphasising the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. With a new chapter on novel…
Keywords in Language and Literacy
Just what is Standard English? Is it correct English? Should grammar be taught? The answers to such questions invariably provoke controversy. In this handy A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like 'proper English', 'real books', 'text', and 'discourse', and the ways in which concepts are used - and abused - by teachers, politicians, linguists, journalists and employers. Each concise definition is …
Vocabulary and Language Teaching (Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series)
Language, Literature and Critical Practice: Ways of Analysing Text
Examines the major consequences of contemporary philosophical, cultural, political and sociological influences upon textual analysis, and the role of the language within it. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literary criticism, language studies, linguistics and English studies
Vocabulary and second/foreign language teaching
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Shorter Notices
Language and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Stylistics
The conditional presence of Mr. Bleaney / by H.G. Widdowson -- Deixis / by Mary Mason -- Othello in person / by H.G. Widdowson -- 'Prelude I' to a literary linguistic stylistics / by M.H. Short -- Style and interpretation in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain' / by Ronald Carter -- Systemic grammar and its use in literary analysis / by Chris Kennedy -- On a passage from Lawrence's 'Odour of chrysanthemums' / by Walter Nash -- O Where are you going? / b…
Language, Literacy and Assessment of Language
There's millions of them: Hyperbole in Everyday Conversation
The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners' acquisition of collocations
The study investigated L 2 learners' acquisition of verb‐noun and adjective‐noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining ). L 1 P olish learners of E nglish as a foreign language were exposed to infrequent collocations embedded in stories that were read during three consecutive weeks. Their collocational competence was subsequently assessed in a battery o…
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland
The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. Accompanying language notes explore the interrelationships between language and literature, emphasising the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. With a new chapter on novel…
Cantonese e-discourse: A new hybrid variety of English
While English remains the most dominant language used on the Internet, studies have primarily investigated computer-mediated interactions in English. Little linguistic research has, however, investigated how English and other languages interact online. Based on a 20,000-word corpus of private ICQ (‘I Seek You’) data, this paper analyses the online linguistic strategies and features of eighteen NNS university students from Hong Kong studying in Br…
Capturing context for heterogeneous corpus analysis: Some first steps
Heterogeneous corpora are emergent multi-modal datasets which comprise a variety of different records of everyday communication, from SMS/MMS messages to interactions in virtual environments, and from GPS data to phone and video calls. By tracking a person’s specific (inter)actions over time and place, the analysis of such “ubiquitous” corpora enables more detailed investigations of the interface between different communicative modes. This paper …
Discourse of `transformational leadership' in infection control
The article explores the impact of the `transformational leadership' style in the role of modern matron with regards to infection control practices. Policy and guidance on the modern matron role suggest that it is distinctive in its combination of management and clinical components, and in its reliance on transformational leadership. Senior nurses are therefore expected to motivate staff by creating high expectations, modelling appropriate behavi…
Size Isn't Everything: Spoken English, Corpus, and the Classroom
In recent papers and books, we have reported some of the findings of our research into the grammatical characteristics of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) (Carter, Hughes, & McCarthy, 1998; Carter & McCarthy, 1995, 1997a, 1997b; Hughes & McCarthy, 1998; McCarthy, 1998, 1999, 2001; McCarthy & Carter, 1994, 1995). CANCODE was established at the School of English Studies at University of Nottingham, in the United…
Vocabulary and second/foreign language teaching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Language, Literacy and Assessment of Language
Shorter Notices
Language and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Stylistics
The conditional presence of Mr. Bleaney / by H.G. Widdowson -- Deixis / by Mary Mason -- Othello in person / by H.G. Widdowson -- 'Prelude I' to a literary linguistic stylistics / by M.H. Short -- Style and interpretation in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain' / by Ronald Carter -- Systemic grammar and its use in literary analysis / by Chris Kennedy -- On a passage from Lawrence's 'Odour of chrysanthemums' / by Walter Nash -- O Where are you going? / b…
Vocabulary and second/foreign language teaching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Language, Literature and Critical Practice: Ways of Analysing Text
Examines the major consequences of contemporary philosophical, cultural, political and sociological influences upon textual analysis, and the role of the language within it. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literary criticism, language studies, linguistics and English studies
Vocabulary and Language Teaching (Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series)
Keywords in Language and Literacy
Just what is Standard English? Is it correct English? Should grammar be taught? The answers to such questions invariably provoke controversy. In this handy A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like 'proper English', 'real books', 'text', and 'discourse', and the ways in which concepts are used - and abused - by teachers, politicians, linguists, journalists and employers. Each concise definition is …
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland
The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. Accompanying language notes explore the interrelationships between language and literature, emphasising the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. With a new chapter on novel…
The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language is edited by two leading figures in TESOL, it contains 30 chapters written by internationally recognised language teaching professionals and applied linguists. Current topics in TESOL are examined and future developments mapped out in an accessible but comprehensive way. The book helps define TESOL and provides an excellent introduction for future language teaching professional…
Size Isn't Everything: Spoken English, Corpus, and the Classroom
In recent papers and books, we have reported some of the findings of our research into the grammatical characteristics of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) (Carter, Hughes, & McCarthy, 1998; Carter & McCarthy, 1995, 1997a, 1997b; Hughes & McCarthy, 1998; McCarthy, 1998, 1999, 2001; McCarthy & Carter, 1994, 1995). CANCODE was established at the School of English Studies at University of Nottingham, in the United…
Language and Creativity
Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as canonical literature and the discourse of advertising. In Language and Creativity Ronald Carter analyses naturally-occurring spoken language to reveal that ordinary people in everyday speech contexts demonstrate creative capacities for sensitivity to th…
Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse
John Sinclair is one of the major figures in applied linguistics and his work is essential study for students. This accessible book collects in one volume Sinclair's key papers on written discourse structure, lexis structure, phraseology, corpus structure and linguistic theory from the 1990s to the present.
There's millions of them: Hyperbole in Everyday Conversation
From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching
From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular reference to the development of corpus-informed pedagogy. The book explains how corpora can be designed and used, and focuses on what they tell us about language teaching. It examines the relevance of corpora…
Literature and language teaching 1986–2006: A review
For Christopher Brumfit (1940–2006) The teaching of literature can thus be seen as a means of introducing learners to such a serious view of our world, of initiating them in the process of defining themselves through contact with others’ experience. How it is best done, what the relationship between ‘reading’ and ‘literature’ needs to be for the greatest number of people to be led to literature, exactly what books are appropriate at what levels –…
Cantonese e-discourse: A new hybrid variety of English
While English remains the most dominant language used on the Internet, studies have primarily investigated computer-mediated interactions in English. Little linguistic research has, however, investigated how English and other languages interact online. Based on a 20,000-word corpus of private ICQ (‘I Seek You’) data, this paper analyses the online linguistic strategies and features of eighteen NNS university students from Hong Kong studying in Br…
Discourse of `transformational leadership' in infection control
The article explores the impact of the `transformational leadership' style in the role of modern matron with regards to infection control practices. Policy and guidance on the modern matron role suggest that it is distinctive in its combination of management and clinical components, and in its reliance on transformational leadership. Senior nurses are therefore expected to motivate staff by creating high expectations, modelling appropriate behavi…
Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Capturing context for heterogeneous corpus analysis: Some first steps
Heterogeneous corpora are emergent multi-modal datasets which comprise a variety of different records of everyday communication, from SMS/MMS messages to interactions in virtual environments, and from GPS data to phone and video calls. By tracking a person’s specific (inter)actions over time and place, the analysis of such “ubiquitous” corpora enables more detailed investigations of the interface between different communicative modes. This paper …
Seeing through The Bell Jar: Investigating Linguistic Patterns of Psychological Disorder
The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners' acquisition of collocations
The study investigated L 2 learners' acquisition of verb‐noun and adjective‐noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining ). L 1 P olish learners of E nglish as a foreign language were exposed to infrequent collocations embedded in stories that were read during three consecutive weeks. Their collocational competence was subsequently assessed in a battery o…
Stylistics and real readers
Stylistics has long claimed to be an empirical method of literary analysis. One aspect of this empiricism is stylistics’ commitment to studying the effect of texts on readers. Short (1996, p. 6) emphasises the reader-centred nature of stylistics, stating that researchers in the fi eld are ‘profoundly interested in the rules and procedures which we, as readers, intuitively know and apply in order to understand what we read’. In reality, however, s…
Spoken Grammar: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
This article synthesises progress made in the description of spoken (especially conversational) grammar over the 20 years since the authors published a paper in this journal arguing for a re-thinking of grammatical description and pedagogy based on spoken corpus evidence. We begin with a glance back at the 16th century and the teaching of Latin grammar in England, with its emphasis on speaking the target language. Later grammars were dominated by…
Linguistics (18 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (7 works) · History (6 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (4 works)