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

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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 âEURœitâEUR in student and published academic writing (A Hewings and M. Hewings)Chapter 7 Researching the grammar of a âEURœliteraryâEUR 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 OâEUR(TM)Halloran and C Coffin)