Publication details
Grammatical Structures in English: Meaning in Context
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
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| Description | The second revised and extended version of Grammatical Structures in English: Meaning in Context, Brno 2000 enlarges considerably the theoretical preliminaries provided for the study of English grammar from a discourse perspective and adds some new insights borrowed form sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. The basic aim of the textbook remains the same, i.e. it presents grammar as a tool which enables users of English to achieve their purposes in communication and tries to help language learners to realise that grammar is used in a different way in spoken and written interaction and is further modified by the context of language use. In the new edition, the suggested set of activities for language analysis and exercises for practicing language structures based on the communicative approach to language learning have been revised as a consequence of experience gathered when working with the original version. While most of the examples used in the textbooks are concocted, this edition makes extended use of authentic language material. Answers to Part Three have been included, as well as an English-Czech dictionary of linguistic terms. |