Applying English grammar : functional and corpus approaches / / edited by Caroline Coffin, Ann Hewings and Kieran O'Halloran

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458360003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-138-15663-9; 0-203-78380-8; 1-4441-6534-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Classificazione: 401.41 APP
• Altri autori (Persone): CoffinCaroline <1958->; HewingsAnn; O'HalloranKieran
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetti: English language - Grammar; Critical discourse analysis; Systemic grammar; Functionalism (Linguistics); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The Open University."; First published in 2004 by Arnold.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary; General Introduction; Part 1 Introducing Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Grammar; 1 Working with Corpora: Issues and Insights; 2 Grammar and Spoken English; 3 Corpus-Based Comparisons of Registers; 4 Grammatical Structure: What Do We Mean?; 5 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English; Part 2 Getting Down to Specifics with Corpus and Functional Approaches; 6 Impersonalizing Stance: A Study of Anticipatory 'it' in Student and Published Academic Writing; 7 Researching the Grammar of a 'Literary' Text8 Grammar in the Construction of Online Discussion Messages; 9 The Development of Language as a Resource for Learning; 10 Grammar in the Construction of Medical Case Histories; Part 3 Critical Text Analysis with Corpus and ; Functional Approaches; 11 Nature and Grammar; 12 Computer Applications in Critical Discourse Analysis; 13 Subjectivity, Evaluation and Point of View in Media Discourse; 14 Human and Inhuman Geography: A Comparative Analysis of Two Long Texts and a Corpus; 15 Checking Overinterpretation and Underinterpretation: Help from Corpora in Critical LinguisticsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited collection is about the application of English grammar and specialises in 'functional' and'corpus' approaches, approaches which are increasingly recognised as providing significant insights into English language in action. It aims to stimulate interest and understanding of grammar as an applied tool not just for grammarians or language learners, but for all those interested in how language is organized to shape our view of events in the world. As the chapters in this book show, functional and corpus approaches allow us to make observations that would not be amenable throu