Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics

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.