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Publication details [#27052]

Bruthiaux, Paul. 1995. The rise and fall of the semicolon: English punctuation theory and English teaching practice. Applied Linguistics 16 (1) : 1–14.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

history | instructing2 | language teaching | marker of conversational organization | natural language

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study reviews 400 year of semicolon use in one English genre and provides an account of the actual frequency of intermediate marks in a corpus of texts relevant to language teaching, in order to inform punctuation teaching on the basis of both manuals' conventionalized theories and practical observations of the relative importance of the different marks.