Further reading

UNIT A1 GRAMMAR, GRAMMARS AND GRAMMATICALITY
Crystal (1997, ch. 16) gives a wide-ranging discussion of grammar and grammars. McCarthy (2001, ch.3) on problems with the sentence as a unit of grammatical analysis. Lerner (1991) and McCarthy and Carter (2001) on grammar in conversation.

UNIT A2 CONTEXT: SOME PRELIMINARIES
Giles and Coupland (1991, ch. 1) for a wide-ranging discussion of the relationship between context and language in general (not only grammar). Brown and Yule (1983, ch. 2) on the role of context in interpretation. Holmes (2001, ch. 10) on context and register. Hoey (2001, ch. 3) on intertextuality. Halliday (1999) on context in language education.

UNIT A3 THE LOCAL SITUATION CONTEXT
Eggins (1994: 52–80) for more on field, tenor and mode and their relationship with register (see also Unit A4). Bell (2001) on how and why people adjust their language style (including grammar) depending on audience.Coupland,Coupland and Giles (1991) on language used by and to elderly people.

UNIT A4 THE WIDER SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT
Swales (1990, ch. 2) on discourse communities, Lave and Wenger (1991) and Meyherhoff (2002) on communities of practice, and Johns (1997, ch.4) on both of these topics. Hyon (1996) on approaches to the notion of genre, Swales (2004) on academic research genres and Candlin and Hyland (1999) and Candlin (2002) on academic and professional contexts. For detailed investigations of grammar choices in academic contexts see Cutting (2000, ch. 4), Hewings (2001), Hyland (2000) and Schlepegrell (2001).

UNIT A5 CONTEXT IN APPROACHES TO GRAMMAR
Malmkjaer (2004) gives very useful brief summaries on the main approaches to grammar. Bloor and Bloor (2004), Eggins (1994) and Thompson (2004)) provide introductions to systemic functional linguistics. Hunston and Francis (1999, ch. 9) and Willis (2004) on implications of pattern grammar for teaching English.

UNIT A6 PRESENTING A VIEW OF THE WORLD THROUGH GRAMMATICAL CHOICES
Thompson (2004, ch. 5) on transitivity and Fairclough (2001, ch. 5) on both transitivity (dealt with mainly under the heading ‘agency’) and nominalisation. Text B3.1 deals with nominalisation in some detail.

UNIT A7 EXPRESSING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS THROUGH GRAMMAR
Holmes (2001, ch. 1) or Mesthrie et al. (1999) for an overview of sociolinguistic categorisations of context and interpersonal relations. Facchinetti,Krug and Palmer (2003) for a collection of papers on modality. Palmer’s paper in this volume provides an introduction to the topic.Hyland (2001) for a detailed analysis of first person personal pronoun use in the context of academic writing and Poncini (2004, ch. IV) for a study of personal pronouns and identity in a business meeting. Thompson (1994) on reporting verbs. Fairclough (2001) deals with a variety of aspects of interpersonal positioning in different written and spoken contexts, and in Fairclough (2000) he deals specifically with grammatical choices in political speeches and writings.

UNIT A8 STANDARDS AND VARIETIES
Various papers in Bex and Watts (1999) on Standard English.Gramley and Pätzold (2004) on national and international varieties of English.Holmes (2001, ch. 4) on lingua francas, pidgins and creoles. Foley et al. (1998) on Singapore English, and Foley and Thompson (2003) on language learning in multilingual settings.

UNIT A9 CORPUS APPROACHES TO THE STUDY
OF GRAMMAR
Hunston (2002) and Bowker and Pearson (2002) on the design and applications of language corpora.Coffin,Hewings and O’Halloran (2004) for a collection on papers combining corpus and functional approaches to grammar. Carter and McCarthy (1997) and Carter, Hughes and McCarthy (2000) on the analysis of corpora for English language teaching. Granger (1998) on learner corpora. Sinclair (1991, ch. 6) on the links between grammar and lexis. Sinclair (2004) for a collection of papers on corpus investigations of language.