I'm no expert, but I think Harry Noden provides a nice way to teach this
construction in Image Grammar.
At 05:14 PM 11/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I know that this email doesn't have anything to do
>with what you guys are discussing, but I need some
>help. I would like to know if any of you have any
>suggestions on how to teach appositives to seventh
>graders so that they can understand them. Please help
>if you can.
>--- "William J. McCleary" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Craig,
> >
> > I was truly startled by your latest message. Your
> > view of the world of
> > discourse, the thesis, and the connection between
> > text and grammar is one
> > that many of us have been working with since the
> > late sixties. The basis of
> > this work is James Kinneavy's book, A Theory of
> > Discourse.
> >
> > Of course, our view of the connection between text
> > and grammar is likely
> > not as sophisticated as yours, for we are attempting
> > to teach this material
> > to students, who are not able to do much with
> > grammar.
> >
> > For a textbook that makes the connection and uses
> > approximately the same
> > categories of text types as yours, see Writing in
> > the Liberal Arts
> > Tradition, by Kinneavy, McCleary, and Nakadate, 2nd
> > edition, Harper & Row,
> > 1990. It's old but still in print.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > Certainly that there is no decent text making the
> > >connections between grammar and whole text
> > discourse is a position worth
> > >taking seriously. My own approach borrows and
> > steals from SFG, but draws
> > >from many other sources as well. I am trying to
> > fill a need.
> >
> > >Craig
> > >
> >
> >
> > William J. McCleary
> > Livonia, NY
> >
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