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Exploring English Grammar: From formal to functional

Autor Caroline Coffin, Jim Donohue, Sarah North
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mai 2009
This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional Grammar) can be used to enrich the traditional formal approach.
Using a problem-solving approach, readers explore how grammatical structures function in different contexts by using a wide variety of thought-provoking and motivating texts including advertisements, cartoons, phone calls and chatroom dialogue. Each chapter focuses on a real world issue or problem that can be investigated linguistically, such as "mis"-translation or problems arising from a communication disorder. By working on these problems, students will become equipped to understand and analyze formal and functional grammar in different genres and styles.
With usable and accessible activities throughout, Exploring English Grammar is ideal for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of English language and linguistics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415478151
ISBN-10: 0415478154
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 229 tables, 3 halftones and 48 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.02 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. From Formal to Functional Grammar  2. Talking about Procedures  3. Describing  4. Talking about the Past  5. Predicting and Hypothesising  6. From Communicative to Systemic Functional Grammar  7. Shaping a Text to Meet Social Purposes: Genre  8. Representing the World  9. Interacting and Taking a Position  10. Making a Text Flow

Notă biografică

Caroline Coffin is Reader in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK. Prior to joining the Open University she was a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.Jim Donohue is currently Head of OpenELT, the English Language Teaching Unit of the Open University. He has been involved in the teaching of English for specific purposes for 20 years.
Sarah North is currently lecturer in applied language studies at the Open University, UK. She has been involved in English language teaching and teacher training in a number of countries, including Indonesia, Tanzania, China, India, Malaysia and Mexico.

Recenzii

'This is a book that has long been needed. Anybody involved in teaching Systemic Functional Linguistics will be immensely grateful to have a resource which handles the difficult transition from 'school grammar' to 'useful grammar' with such intelligence, thoroughness and flair. Anyone interested in exploring how language works, and in developing their skills of linguistic analysis, will find this book stimulating, supportive and thought-provoking.'
Geoff Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, University of Liverpool, UK
'This is the book we've been waiting for - a bridge between traditional grammar and the more functional approach to grammar which focuses on 'language as a resource for meaning'. Full of practical activities and written in an accessible manner, this book will become an indispensable reference for those interested in how language works.'
Beverly Derewianka, Professor of Language Education, University of Wollongong, Australia
'Exploring English Grammar represents a bold and innovative attempt to present university level grammar from a functional perspective without losing sight of the formal conventions. ...by the end of the book, through the careful staging of the many activities provided, along with the worked answers, students should have built up a broad range of skills for describing and analysing texts in terms of the various levels of meaning that they make.'
Dr Tom Bartlett, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK

'This is a book that has long been needed. Anybody involved in teaching Systemic Functional Linguistics will be immensely grateful to have a resource which handles the difficult transition from 'school grammar' to 'useful grammar' with such intelligence, thoroughness and flair. Anyone interested in exploring how language works, and in developing their skills of linguistic analysis, will find this book stimulating, supportive and thought-provoking.'
Geoff Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, University of Liverpool, UK
'This is the book we've been waiting for - a bridge between traditional grammar and the more functional approach to grammar which focuses on 'language as a resource for meaning'. Full of practical activities and written in an accessible manner, this book will become an indispensable reference for those interested in how language works.'
Beverly Derewianka, Professor of Language Education, University of Wollongong, Australia
'Exploring English Grammar represents a bold and innovative attempt to present university level grammar from a functional perspective without losing sight of the formal conventions. ...by the end of the book, through the careful staging of the many activities provided, along with the worked answers, students should have built up a broad range of skills for describing and analysing texts in terms of the various levels of meaning that they make.'
Dr Tom Bartlett, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK
This is a most welcome volume. The book takes the student step by step through a series of well organized moves from traditional-formal through communicative to systemic-functional approaches to language, always emphasizing the common ground while showing exactly what is being achieved at each new step. It will be a major force in raising awareness of the richness and the power of language.'

M.A.K. Halliday, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Descriere

This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional grammar) can be used to enrich the traditional formal approach. With usable and accessible activities throughout, Exploring English Grammar is ideal for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of English language and linguistics.