Functional Grammatics: Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English - Softcover

Macken-Horarik, Mary

 
9781138948051: Functional Grammatics: Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138948055 ISBN 13: 9781138948051
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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. It re-imagines the possibilities of grammar for school English through Halliday’s notion of grammatics.

Functional Grammatics is founded on decades of research inspired by systemic functional linguistics, and includes studies of grammatical tools useful to teachers of English, research into visual and multimodal literacies and studies of the genre–grammar connection. It aims to be useful to the interpretation and composition of texts in school English, portable in design across texts and contexts and beneficial for language development.

The book will be of interest to researchers and teacher educators, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and practicing teachers committed to evidence-based professional development.

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About the Author

Mary Macken-Horarik is a Senior Research Fellow in the Learning Sciences Institute Australia (LSIA) at the Australian Catholic University, Australia.

Kristina Love is a Professor of Education at the Australian Catholic University, Australia.

Carmel Sandiford is a Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Len Unsworth is Professor in English and Literacies Education at the Learning Sciences Institute Australia (LSIA) at the Australian Catholic University, Australia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138948055
ISBN 13 
9781138948051
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
300

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