Functional grammatics : re-conceptualizing knowledge about language and image for school English / Mary Macken-Horarik, Kristina Love, Carmel Sandiford and Len Unsworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macken-Horarik, Mary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar--Study and teaching (Primary).

English language.

English language--Grammar--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Language arts (Primary).

Language arts (Secondary).

English language--Grammar.

Physical Description:

xii, 287 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

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 mutlimodality. 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 include 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Negotiating the territory of English through functional grammatics 1

The problem of grammar 1

Re-imagining grammar through systemic functional grammatics 4

Finding directions in the territory using four points on a theoretical compass 10

Preview of chapters 25

Notes 26

References 27

2 True North: investigating a grammatics for narrative 32

Exploring the interface between grammatics and narrative 32

Grammatics and genre 39

Grammatics, meaning and metafunctions 44

Applying an ideational lens to narrative 50

Conclusion 62

Notes 63

References 64

3 'The Wild West': understanding resources for meaning in narrative 67

Moving into the sometimes forbidding territory of language and image 67

Exploring interactive systems of choice in verbal texts 69

Exploring interactive systems of choice in images 76

Managing interaction in narrative composition 79

Exploring stratification in language and image 81

A step into more delicate regions of the interpersonal territory - Appraisal 86

Concluding remarks 96

Notes 98

References 98

4 Moving South: teaching narrative In classrooms 101

Introduction to the teachers and the teaching and learning cycle 101

Three scenarios in teaching a grammatics for narrative 104

Scenario 1 - teaching narrative in a primary classroom 106

Building the context for work on narrative 107

Modelling features of narrative (setting and dialogue) 108

Guided practice -joint construction of a new narrative 112

Independent composition of narratives 114

Extension work - other possibilities for work with functional grammatics 115

Scenario 2 - teaching narrative in a secondary classroom 115

Reviewing and consolidating students' understandings of narrative viewpoint 116

Building the context for work on narrative 118

Modelling the text 119

Guided practice 123

Independent writing and refection 124

Scenario 3 - multimodal narrative interpretation and text creation with Year 7 124

Planning for teaching 125

Building the context for work on multimodal narrative 128

Modelling the text -from teacher to small groups 129

Guided practice - applying the tools to composition of a multimodal narrative 135

Independent composition of multimodal narratives 136

Conclusion 136

Notes 138

References 138

5 True North: investigating a grammatics for persuasion 141

Exploring the interface of grammatics and persuasion 141

Rhetoric and grammatics: the case of one young orator 148

Rhetoric and logogenesis: the case of a political orator 155

Grammatics and rhetoric in the broader civic domain 164

Multimodal forms of persuasion 165

Note 172

References 172

6 'The Wild West': understanding resources for meaning in persuasion 176

Moving into the territory of persuasive resources in school English 176

Written expositions in schooling: a developmental perspective 182

Written analytical expositions in the secondary school 193

Resources for expanding and contracting argumentative positions 203

Expositions: a multimodal focus 205

References 207

7 Moving South: teaching persuasion in classrooms 211

Scenarios in teaching a grammatics for argument 212

Scenario 1 - exposition in a primary (Year 516) classroom 215

Scenario 2 - multimodal composition in the primary classroom 226

Composing a multimodal text 230

Building shared understandings about images in advertisements 230

Scenario 3 - Mood and Modality in a secondary classroom 235

Conclusion 240

Notes 240

References 240

8 Tracking East: exploring narratives of many kinds (and modes) 242

Introduction 242

The challenge of diverse multimodal narratives 242

The Great Bear 246

The Tunnel 252

The Lost Thing 255

Transforming meanings 259

Notes 269

References 270

9 Envoi 272

The problems of grammar reprised 272

What we did about the problems 273

Negotiating the terrain in English - potentials and problems of grammatics 277

References 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138948044

1138948047

9781138948051

1138948055

OCLC:

933722901