>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:59:50 +1100
>From: l.unsworth@edfac.usyd.edu.au (Len Unsworth)
>Subject: New Book
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>Dear Colleagues,
>The title indicated below is is now available
>(A$44.95; US$65.00; 18.95 Pounds Sterling)
>In Australia - contact Allen and Unwin FAX 61 2 9906 2218 Ph 61 2 9901 4088
>In the UK - contact Continuum (Cassell) Fax 44 171 240 8531 Ph 44 1202 665432
>
>RESEARCHING LANGUAGE IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES: FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC
>PERPECTIVES
>Edited by Len Unsworth. London: (Continuum)Cassell, 2000
>
>Contents
>
> 1 Developing socially responsible language research
>Frances Christie and Len Unsworth
>
> 2 Getting started with functional analysis of texts
>Louise Ravelli
>
> 3 Researching first language development in children
>Clare Painter
>
> 4 Researching second and foreign language development
>Gillian Perrett
>
> 5 Children's Literature, Children and Uses of Language Description
>Geoffrey Williams
>
> 6 Researching everyday talk
>Suzanne Eggins
>
> 7 Socio-semantic variation: Different wordings, different meanings
>Carmel Cloran
>
> 8 The language of classroom interaction and learning
>Frances Christie
>
> 9 Exploring reading processes
>Linda Gerot
>
>10 Interpreting literature: The role of APPRAISAL
>Joan Rothery and Maree Stenglin
>
>11 Investigating subject-specific literacies in school learning
>Len Unsworth
>
>12 Close reading: functional linguistics as a tool for critical
>discourse analysis
>J.R. Martin
>
>
>Researching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who
>intend to carry out and/or study research in children's language
>development; teaching English as a second language; children's literature;
>casual conversation; social class and language variation; classroom
>discourse; reading processes; teaching writing; literacy and curriculum
>area learning; critical literacies and related areas. The contributors are
>among the foremost researchers in these fields. In this book they
>introduce approaches to help investigate such areas in applied language
>research using systemic functional linguistics (SFL). A key purpose of
>this text is to facilitate the further engagement of language researchers
>with SFL perspectives, encouraging more collaborative transdisciplinary
>work across different fields of study and theoretical approaches in
>projects of mutual concern.
>
>The first two chapters outline the key aspects of SFL descriptions of the
>relationships between language and social context and the inter-related
>descriptions of text structures and grammatical systems. This provides
>sufficient background to enable those coming to SFL to make productive,
>critical use of the research reviewed, studies described and advice on
>project design provided in the following chapters. Nevertheless, the book
>is an introductory resource and particular attention has been paid
>throughout to the extensive provision of clear references to more
>elaborated accounts of the important issues discussed.
>
>Dr. Len Unsworth
>Associate Dean and Head, Division of Graduate Studies,
>Faculty of Education, University of Sydney,
>New South Wales, Australia, 2006.
>
>Phone (local): (02) 9351 3687
>FAX (local): (02) 9351 4235
>
>Phone (international): 61 2 9351 3687
>FAX (international): 61 2 9351 4235
>
>email: l.unsworth@edfac.usyd.edu.au
>Homepage: http://www.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/unswortl
>
>
>
>
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Phil Graham
Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law
University of Queensland
phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au
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