Applying English Grammar.

Caroline Coffin, Ann Hewings and Kieran O'Halloran are all lecturers in the Centre for Language andCommunications at the Open University, UK

• General IntroductionSection A Introducing functional and corpus approachesIntroductionChapter 1. Working with corpora: issues and insights (E Tognini-Bonelli)Chapter 2 Grammar and Spoken English (R Carter)Chapter 3 Corpus-based comparisons of registers (D. Biber and S Conrad)Chapter 4 Grammatical Structure: what do we mean? (Jim R. Martin)Chapter 5 Some grammatical problems in scientific English (M Halliday)Section B Getting down to specifics with corpus and functional approachesIntroductionChapter 6 Impersonalising stance: a study of anticipatory “it†in student and published academic writing (A Hewings and M. Hewings)Chapter 7 Researching the grammar of a “literary†text (H Hillier)Chapter 8 Grammar in the construction of online discussion messages (A Hewings and C.Coffin)Chapter 9 The development of language as a resource for learning (C Painter)Chapter 10 Grammar in the construction of medical case histories (G Francis and A Kramer-Dahl)Section C Critical text analysis with corpus and functional approachesIntroductionChapter 11 Nature and grammar (A Goatly)Chapter 12 Computer Applications in critical discourse analysis (V Koller and G Mautner)Chapter 13 Subjectivity, Evaluation and Point of View in Media Discourse (P White)Chapter 14 Human and inhuman geography: a comparative analysis of two long texts and a corpus (M Stubbs)Chapter 15 Checking Overinterpretation and Underinterpretation: Help from Corpora in Critical Linguistics (KA O’Halloran and C Coffin)

This edited volume...brings together in a novel way two approaches ton English grammar, namely the systematic functional approach and the corpus linguistic one, both of them becoming increasingly relevant to the empirical description of language use and the study of how language transmits values, identities, and ideology.......Highly readable and clearly organized into self-contained secions, it provides an up-to-date theoretical and methodological framework for the analysis of the English language as it is used today...http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-2778.htmlThe thirteen-page glossary lists terms related to the analysis of language use and provides brief, clear definitions of key concepts. This is an excellent reference source for both students and academics.Helen Basturkmen, TESOLANZ Journal