English Grammar

English Grammar

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Provides the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. This work includes features such as: chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation; student revision exercises and topics for individual study; answer key for analytical exercises; and more.

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English Grammar by Angela Downing

This award-winning grammar course book provides the basis for linguistic courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. 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.

'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 CourseIn 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, Senior Research Professor, Linguistics, Macquarie University

Angela Downing is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Linguistics (English Philology I) at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. The late Philip Locke taught at the Institute of Modern Languages and Translation at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
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ISBN 13 9780415287876
ISBN 10 0415287871
Title English Grammar
Author Angela Downing
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2005-12-19
Number of pages 640
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.