<p><strong>'I found many of the ideas here useful as stimuli for my own undergraduate students ... there is much to recommend this text as a coursebook for use with groups of students. '</strong> - <em>BAAL News</em></p>

<p><strong>'... I found many of the ideas here useful as stimuli for my own undergraduate students ... there is much to recommend this text as a coursebook for use with groups of students ... '</strong> <strong>–</strong> <em>BaaL News</em></p><p><strong>'Overall, there is much to recommend this text as a coursebook ... It offers some very useful starting points for investigation of both concepts and research topics.'</strong> –<em> Gill Boag-Munroe, Baal News</em></p>

Grammar and Context:considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes placeexamines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts – including socio-cultural, situational and global influencesincludes a range of different types of grammar – functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptiveexplores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speechesgathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: David Crystal, M.A.K. Halliday, Joanna Thornborrow, Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey.The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415310814/
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Grammar and Context considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place.
Section A: Introduction Unit 1: Grammar, Grammars and Grammaticality Unit 2: Context: Some Preliminaries Unit 3: The Local Situational Context Unit 4: The Wider Socio-Cultural Context Unit 5: Context in Approaches to Grammar Unit 6: Presenting a View of the World Through Grammatical Choices Unit 7: Expressing Interpersonal Relations Through Grammar Unit 8: Standards and Varieties Unit 9: Corpus Approaches to the Study of Grammar Section B: Extension Unit 1: Grammar in Conversation Unit 2: Grammar in Speech in Institutional Settings Unit 3: Grammar in Written Academic Contexts Unit 4: Grammar in Written Communication Unit 5: Grammar in Restricted Communications Unit 6: Grammar in Developing and Disintegrating Language Unit 7: Grammar in Second Language Learning Unit 8: Grammar and Gender Unit 9: Grammar and Social Class Unit 10: Grammar in International Varieties of Englishes Section C: Exploration Some Final Thoughts. Glossary of Grammatical Terms
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415310819
Publisert
2005-02-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
720 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
360

Om bidragsyterne

Ann Hewings is a lecturer in the excellent Centre for Language and Communications at the OU and has been developing the new OU grammar course (so she's in touch with current developments). Martin is a senior lecturer in the English for International Students Unit at the University of Birmingham. He is an established ELT author with a strong reputation.