Functional English Grammar,9780521459228

Functional English Grammar

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ISBN13: 9780521459228
ISBN10: 0521459222
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-10-01
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary

This text explores ways in which English grammar enables speakers and writers to represent the world, to interact with one another, and to create coherent messages. This book provides second language teachers with a functional description of English grammar, in which grammar is viewed as a communicative resource. Each chapter includes a focus on areas of difficulty for second language learners, numerous authentic examples, tasks that allow the reader to apply the concepts introduced, and discussion questions. A final chapter covers issues in the learning and teaching of grammar, and reviews methodological options for the second or foreign language classroom. Assuming no previous study of linguistics or English grammar, this book is suitable for self-study or as a textbook in teacher education programs.

Table of Contents

Series editor's Preface ix
Preface xi
Some basic concepts
1(21)
Formal and functional grammar
1(1)
Functional grammar and language teaching
2(1)
Levels of analysis
3(1)
The organization of grammar
4(4)
Meaning in grammar
8(2)
Grammatical functions
10(12)
Summary
17(1)
Key terms introduced
18(2)
Discussion of tasks
20(2)
Representing things I: Nouns and noun groups
22(21)
Countability
22(3)
Noun groups
25(2)
Referrers
27(16)
Summary
37(1)
Key terms introduced
37(1)
Discussion of tasks
38(5)
Representing things II: More on noun groups
43(24)
Inclusives
43(1)
Quantifiers
44(3)
Partitives
47(1)
Describers
48(2)
Classifiers
50(3)
Postmodifiers
53(5)
Processes and qualities as Things
58(9)
Summary
62(1)
Key terms introduced
63(1)
Discussion of tasks
63(4)
Doing and happening I: The transitivity of action processes
67(20)
Verb groups
67(5)
Action processes
72(15)
Summary
82(1)
Key terms introduced
82(1)
Discussion of tasks
83(4)
Doing and happening II: Ergativity, phrasal verbs, and phase
87(16)
Causer and Affected
87(5)
Verbs followed by prepositions
92(4)
Phase
96(7)
Summary
99(1)
Key terms introduced
100(1)
Discussion of tasks
100(3)
Seeing, liking, thinking, wanting, and saying: The transitivity of mental and verbal processes
103(23)
Mental processes
104(12)
Mental-action processes
116(1)
Verbal processes
116(10)
Summary
122(1)
Key terms introduced
122(1)
Discussion of tasks
123(3)
Being and having: The transitivity of relational and existential processes
126(21)
Attributive relational processes
126(9)
Identifying relational processes
135(3)
Possessive relational processes
138(1)
Existential processes
139(8)
Summary
141(1)
Key terms introduced
142(1)
Discussion of tasks
143(4)
Representing time: Tense and temporal Adjuncts
147(27)
The tense system
148(4)
Using tense
152(9)
Different interpretations of tense
161(2)
Learning and teaching tenses
163(3)
Circumstantial Adjuncts of time
166(2)
Conjunctive Adjuncts of time
168(1)
Interpersonal Adjuncts of time
168(6)
Summary
169(1)
Key terms introduced
170(1)
Discussion of tasks
171(3)
Interaction: Speech acts and mood
174(18)
Speech acts
174(2)
Mood
176(1)
Mood structure
177(3)
Questions
180(5)
Directives
185(2)
Learning and teaching mood and speech acts
187(5)
Summary
189(1)
Key terms introduced
190(1)
Discussion of tasks
190(2)
Expressing judgements and attitudes: Modal auxiliaries and modality
192(27)
Likelihood
194(10)
Requirement
204(5)
Other areas of modality
209(3)
Summary of modal auxiliaries and their meanings
212(1)
Modality, context, and speech act
212(2)
Learning and teaching modality
214(5)
Summary
215(1)
Key terms introduced
216(1)
Discussion of tasks
216(3)
Organizing messages: Theme and focus
219(27)
Marked and unmarked word order
221(1)
Theme and Theme
222(1)
Marked and unmarked Themes
223(1)
Selection of marked Themes
223(4)
Learning and teaching Theme-Rheme structures
227(2)
Nonexperiential Themes
229(2)
Focus of information
231(2)
Other ways of organizing the message
233(13)
Summary
242(1)
Key terms introduced
243(1)
Discussion of tasks
243(3)
Combining messages: Complex sentences
246(19)
Independent and dependent clauses
247(1)
Structural relationships between clauses
248(7)
Logical relationships between clauses
255(10)
Summary
261(1)
Key terms introduced
262(1)
Discussion of tasks
263(2)
Issues in the learning and teaching of grammar
265(13)
Grammar and communicative language teaching
265(2)
Grammar, meaning, and communication
267(1)
Learning how to mean differently
267(2)
Grammar teaching and research into language learning
269(1)
Methodological options
270(6)
The way forward
276(2)
Appendix 278(6)
References 284(5)
Acknowledgments 289(2)
Index 291

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