English Grammar A University Course

Review
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 Course. In 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

Description
This new edition of Downing and Locke's award-winning coursebook has been thoroughly revised and rewritten by Angela Downing to offer an integrated account of structure, meaning and function in relation to context. Also used as a reference book, it provides the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies. It is 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
exercises and topics for individual study
answer key for analytical exercises
comprehensive index
select bibliography
suggestions for further reading.