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Title: Introducing Functional Grammar by Geoff Thompson, Thompson Geoff ISBN: 0-340-62535-X Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A grammar that's about Meaning
Comment: Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, now in its revised and improved Second Edition, is the best book you can read if you want to understand how English grammar is a resource for making meaning. Most formal grammar is just about syntax -- how words get put together grammatically, with no consideration of how people use language to communicate a meaning. This book has been the basis for many of the most successful applications of linguistics to education, language teaching, and studies of culture, communication, mass media, politics, etc. It's a book to read, use, and keep.
Rating: 3
Summary: Don't be a stranger
Comment: It often happens when you read an introduction into a linguistic theory, whichever linguistic theory, that you lose track somewhere halfway page 3 or so. The terminology that gets thrown at you is confusing and before you know it you decide that you are not a welcome visitor in this particular area of linguistics. That is one thing that will not happen to you when reading Halliday's Introduction into Systemtic Functional Grammar. The book is clear, well-written and provides a lot of examples which are analyzed in detail. With regard to the theory that is discussed in the book, one may feel compelled to attack the necessity of some of the concepts that Halliday has thought up; one may want to contest the definition of other concepts (especially the concept of Theme is heatedly debated), or one may want to vehemently disagree with their application (I certainly do at times). But when you are looking for a quick and clear introduction into this theory (for instance, because you would like to join the discussion on Theme), this is the book to get your hands on.
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Title: Genre Analysis : English in Academic and Research Settings by John Swales, Michael H. Long, Jack C. Richards ISBN: 0521338131 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 08 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method by James Paul Gee ISBN: 0415211867 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Book, How to Teach Grammar by Scott Thornbury ISBN: 0582339324 Publisher: Pearson ESL Pub. Date: 12 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.27 |
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Title: Study of Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis ISBN: 0194371891 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics by Suzanne Eggins ISBN: 0826453015 Publisher: Pinter Pub Ltd Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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