Grammar and Context An Advanced Resource Book [Paperback]

Grammar and Context:

• considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place
• examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts  including socio-cultural, situational and global influences
• includes a range of different types of grammar  functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptive
• explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speeches
• gathers 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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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 Clasl#,