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Grammar
Exploring English Grammar From Formal to Functional
New
Grammar: A Pocket Guide
Caroline Coffin, Jim Donohue and Sarah North, all at The Open University, UK
Susan J. Behrens, Marymount Manhattan College, USA A pocket guide to grammar for US students and, indeed, anyone who struggles with the rules of grammar. Using examples from everyday speech and writing, this book will answer such common questions as: • Is it ’10 items less’ or ’10 items fewer’? • Should I say ’If I were you’ or ’if I was you’? • Can you start a sentence with ’And’ or ’Because’? • When do you use ’whom’? If you’ve ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book for you. October 2010: 172 x 119: 192pp Pb: 978-0-415-49359-8: $17.95 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415493598
Grammar and Context An Advanced Resource Book Ann Hewings and Martin Hewings Series: Routledge Applied Linguistics ’... 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 ’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.’ – Gill Boag-Munroe, Baal News
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/graduate students of English language and linguistics. Selected Contents: 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 May 2009: 246 x 174: 464pp Hb: 978-0-415-47815-1: $115.00 Pb: 978-0-415-47816-8: $39.95
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2005: 246 x 174: 320pp Hb: 978-0-415-31080-2: $135.00 Pb: 978-0-415-31081-9: $39.95
2nd Edition
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English Grammar A University Course Angela Downing and Philip Locke
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This award-winning grammar course book provides the basis for linguistic courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies.
2005: 246 x 174: 640pp Hb: 978-0-415-28786-9: $120.00 Pb: 978-0-415-28787-6: $35.95 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415287876
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Second Language Acquisition Bestseller • 3rd Edition
Second Language Acquisition An Introductory Course Susan M. Gass, Michigan State University, USA and Larry Selinker, New York University, USA
’A tour de force. The authors have taken the best text available for an introductory course in second language acquisition (SLA) and made it even stronger’ - Fred Eckman, Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, USA
The much anticipated revision of this bestselling textbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of SLA. Continuing the previous editions’ successful tradition of a clearly written and illustrated presentation, an emphasis on empirical findings, and the most up-to-date research, the third edition offers a new chapter, ’SLA and Related Disciplines,’ discussing multilingualism; and new sections about the relationship between L1 and L2 acquisition, language transfer, sociocultural theory, and working memory. Its accessible format is designed for use in the introductory second language acquisition course taken by undergraduate and graduate students studying second language acquisition or applied linguistics in a variety of departments. Selected Contents: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Related Disciplines Part 3: Second and Foreign Language Data Part 4: The Role of the Native Language: An Historical Overview Part 5: Recent Perspectives on the Role of Previously Known Languages Part 6: Formal Approaches to SLA Part 7: Typological and Functional Approaches Part 8: Looking at Interlanguage Processing Part 9: Interlanguage in Context Part 10: Input, Interaction, and Output Part 11: Instructed Second Language Learning Part 12: Beyond the Domain of Language Part 13: The Lexicon Part 14: An Integrated View of Second Language Acquisition 2008: 229 x 152: 616pp Hb: 978-0-8058-5497-8: $115.00 Pb: 978-0-8058-5498-5: $53.95 eBook: 978-0-203-93284-1 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780805854985
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