George Yule

General extenders are phrases like 'or something', 'and everything', 'and things (like that)', 'and stuff (like that)', and 'and so on'. Although they are an everyday feature of spoken language, are crucial in successful interpersonal communication, and have multiple functions in discourse, they have so far gone virtually unnoticed in linguistics. Meer

A través de un estilo claro y conciso, George Yule ofrece al lector no especializado una introducción exhaustiva a los aspectos fundamentales del estudio de la lengua. Meer

Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. Meer

Teaching the Spoken Language is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author's important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. Meer