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This course is designed to review and build upon students’ grammatical command of English structures in order to enhance their written and spoken performances in academic and professional settings. Different from typical foundational grammar courses where grammatical features are examined in isolation, this course examines grammar points as smaller systems lodged within a larger system.
This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to English grammar, drawing on a variety of international authentic texts, including newspapers, novels and academic texts. The part Introduction sets out the key concepts for the area of study, such as word classes, clauses and sentences. The part Development further develops on the key areas already introduced. The part Exploration provides examples of language data. The part Extension presents key readings in the area taken from the work of important writers. The book also provides index of terms and suggestions for further reading.
This book introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part One introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part Two provides more detailed corpus-based descriptions of text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties, general and professional written varieties, and emerging electronic varieties. Part Three introduces more advanced analytical approaches and deals with larger theoretical concerns, such as the relationship between register studies and other sub-disciplines of linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis.
