Pearson Education Limited Making Sense of Grammar

In this new book, David Crystal moves the analysis of grammatical structure on to the next stage - interpreting it from a semantic and pragmatic point of view. Using the framework he used in Rediscover Grammar, he develops our understanding of grammar and then shows how it works in different language contexts - literary and non-literary, spoken and written. The author explains structure and then shows how it works in different language contexts - the literary, the non-literary, the spoken and the written. He explores a wide range of linguistic themes including sociolinguistics, language acquisition and register, and shows how our language can be interpreted. Autorid: David Crystal