Grammar and Context

Considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts – including socio-cultural situational and global influences includes a range of different types of grammar – functional pedagogic descriptive and prescriptive explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts such as advertising dinner-table talk email and political speeches gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline including: David Crystal M.A.K. Halliday Joanna Thornborrow Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey.