Ann Hewings, Martin Hewings

Grammar and Context

An Advanced Resource Book

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.
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Produktdetails

• Routledge Applied Linguistics
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 23mm x 174mm x 246mm
• Gewicht: 793g
• ISBN-13: 9780415310802
• ISBN-10: 0415310806
• Artikelnr.: 22387653

Autorenporträt

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.
Ann Hewings, The Open University, UK
Martin Hewings, University of Birmingham, UK
Ann Hewings, The Open University, UK
Martin Hewings, University of Birmingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

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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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

Rezensionen

'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. ' - BAAL News

'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. ' - BAAL News