Angela Downing

Philip Locke

This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as background reading for course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources. Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge. Key features include: *chapters divided into modules of class-length material *literary and other authentic texts to illustrate points of grammar *clear chapter and module summaries enable efficient teacher preparation and student revision *tasks for individual study at the end of each chapter *answer key to tasks and comprehensive index.

A University Course in English Grammar

María de los Ángeles Gómez González

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Francisco Gonzálvez García

Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share two crucial assumptions: (i) form is not independent of meaning/function or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and explanation need to take into account the communicative function of language. This volume offers readers interested in functional linguistics a selected sample of studies that jointly prove the efficacy of the analytical tools and procedures broadly accepted within the functionalist tradition in order to investigate language and discourse, with special focus on key pragmatic/discourse notions such as contextualization, grammaticalisation, reference, politeness, (in-)directness, discourse markers, speech acts, subjective evaluation and sentiment analysis in texts, among others. In addition, this volume offers specific corpus-based techniques for the objective contextualisation of linguistic data, which is crucial given the central role allotted to context in both functional linguistics and pragmatics/discourse analysis.

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