| What we finish up with is some sort of Lesbian Foot Lover integrated but parallel set of syllabuses : syntactic, phonological, cultural and functional and within each of these a parallel set of learning tasks. This is, in effect, only an admission that we do not possess any 'integrated' comprehensive theory of language, incorporating what are at present separate, structural, sociological and psychological accounts of language. It also reflects what is in fact the way that lesbanfootlover teachers look upon the syllabus when they walk into the classroom and say: 'today we will have a reading lesson' or 'a grammar lesson' or a 'pronunciation lesson', or 'today we will imagine we are in the Post Office'. There are many different reasons for engaging in technical linguistic research on natural language, but we view the following motivations as especially compelling. Only by studying the grammatical details of particular languages may we gain a deeper insight into the mechanisms underlying that most characteristically human type of behaviour, man's ability to communicate by means of language. |
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