A recording of all of the dialogues will be available on the
internet Whys & Therefores aids the reader to arrive at
generalizations for the shape of the English language: words,
grammar, meaning, sound and spelling. The format adopted throughout
is that of a light-hearted ongoing Socratic dialogue between a
mentor and a pupil. The intended effects of such activity are:
awareness of what it means to 'know' a language; reliance upon
native-language intuition; discovery of what one didn't know that
one already 'knows' about the language; use of ungrammaticality as
an investigative tool; healthy questioning of received facts about
language from so-called experts; and usefulness of language play.
Whys & Therefores can be read as a book,dipped into at random,
expanded upon, even acted out. The language phenomena treated
therein are indexed and tabbed to the dialogues where they are
discussed, making Whys & Therefores a valuable source of
reference. Whys & Therefores is intended as an entertaining yet
serious do-it-yourself book about aspects of English language form
and meaning. However, it will also prove useful to schools as
classroom material to be further exploited by the instructor in
free-range dialogue form, and to institutions offering teacher
training in rational-based instructional procedures for English
language education in the schools.
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