Angela Downing and Philip Locke, English Grammar: A University Course, Second Edition, Routledge, 2005
'Routledge are to be congratulated for publishing this greatly revised edition of Angela Downing and Philip Locke's Grammar , now entitled English Grammar: A University Course . In my Preface I welcomed enthusiastically the first edition as an innovative course in Systemic Functional Grammar. Now what we have is a greatly revised work with the advantage of insights from recent research in corpus linguistics, studies in sociolinguistic interaction and discourse, genre analysis and cognitive linguistics. As such, this new and more comprehensive Grammar will sit well with a range of contemporary English language courses and programs, from those more functionally text-based to those exploring the interface between lexico-grammar and interaction. It will, I am confident, continue to be of the utmost value to researchers and practitioners. ' - Christopher N. Candlin
This new edition provides the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. It is accessible and reader-friendly throughout. Key features include:
• chapters divided into modules of class-length materials
• each new concept clearly explained and highlighted
• authentic texts from a wide range of sources, both spoken and written, to illustrate grammatical usage
• clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and student revision
• exercises and topics for individual study
• answer key for analytical exercises
• comprehensive index
• select bibliography
• suggestions for further reading.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition 1. Basic Concepts 2. The Skeleton of the Message 3. The Development of the Message 4. Conceptualising Patterns of Experience 5. Interaction Between Speaker and Hearer 6. Organising the Message 7. Expanding the Message 8. Talking about Events 9. Viewpoints on Events 10. Talking about 'things' 11. Describing Persons, Things and Circumstances: What is it Like? How, Where and When? 12. Spatial, Temporal and Other Relationships
2005: 640pp
Hb: 978-0-415-28786-9: £60.00
Pb: 978-0-415-28787-6: £17.99
For more information or order a copy of the book please visit www.routledge.com