TY - BOOK AU - Coffin,Caroline AU - Donohue,Jim AU - North,Sarah TI - Exploring English grammar: from formal to functional SN - 9780203717929 (e-book : PDF) PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - English language KW - Grammar KW - Systemic grammar KW - Functionalism (Linguistics) KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-445) and index; 1. From formal to functional grammar -- 2. Talking about procedures -- 3. Describing -- 4. Talking about the past -- 5. Predicting and hypothesising -- 6. From communicative to systemic functional grammar -- 7. Shaping a text to meet social purposes : genre -- 8. Representing the world -- 9. Interacting and taking a position -- 10. Making a text flow; Also available in print edition UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203717929 ER -