Beschreibung:
Mary Macken-Horarik is a Senior Research Fellow in the Learning Sciences Institute Australia (LSIA) at the Australian Catholic University, Australia.
This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Drawing on resources in systemic functional linguistics, the book envisions a `functional grammatics¿ relevant to disciplinary domains such as literary study, rhetoric and multimodality.
1. Negotiating the territory of English through functional grammatics 2. Developing a grammatics for narrative 3. Looking closely at resources for meaning in narrative 4. Teaching narrative in primary and secondary classrooms 5. Building knowledge about language and image in persuasive texts 6. Looking closely at resources for meaning in persuasion 7. Teaching persuasion in primary and secondary classrooms 8. Tracking east ¿ exploring narratives of many kinds (and modes) 9. Envoi