Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements; The author; 1. Introduction; 2. Spoken language and the notion of genre; 3. What should we teach about the spoken language?; 4. When does sentence grammar become discourse grammar?; 5. Some patterns of co-occurrence of verb-forms in spoken and written English; 6. Vocabulary and the spoken language; 7. Idioms in use: a discourse-based re-examination of a traditional area of language teaching; 8. 'So Mary was saying': speech reporting in everyday conversation; Glossary; References; Index
Summary
Brings together a number of spearate studies by the author, all based on the Cambridge Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) spoken corpus, and weaves them together to illustrate the cetral role the study of spoken language can play in applied linguistics
