Exploring English Grammar: From formal to functional

✍ Scribed by Caroline Coffin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 465
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Exploring English Grammar
From formal to functional
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
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 fiow
Bookend: further reading
References
Index