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The review discusses Maria Fotiadou's analysis of the language of employability on UK university websites following the introduction of full fees in 2012. Fotiadou uses Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics to examine how universities present 'employability' to students. The review highlights the shift towards viewing students as consumers of education for employment purposes, critiquing the emphasis on individual responsibility over government support for graduate jobs. Fotiadou also explores the expansion of university careers services and their role in shaping students' perceptions of the job market and self-marketing strategies. [Extracted from the article]

"Systemic Functional Grammar: A Text-Based Description of English, Spanish, and Chinese" is a book that explores the application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in language description. The book aims to provide a pedagogical understanding of SFLD and foster further scholarly endeavors in this field. It consists of five chapters dedicated to exploring different aspects of grammar in English, Spanish, and Chinese, including the nominal group, verbal group, mood, transitivity, and theme. The book emphasizes the practical reasoning and methodology behind SFLD, encouraging readers to engage in their own language descriptions. It distinguishes itself by showcasing distinctive features of SFLD, such as its reliance on textual data, systemic-semantic orientation, and emphasis on the uniqueness of each language. Overall, this book serves as a valuable and practical textbook for those interested in SFLD. [Extracted from the article]

Luo, Han 2019 Particle Verbs in English: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective Singapore Springer 978-981-13-6853-0 v+180 $89.09 Hardback This new book on English particle verbs, is a revised dissertation produced by Han Luo under the insightful guidance of some of the most prominent scholars of Cognitive Linguistics in contemporary China. As opposed to Gries (1999) who suggests that transitive particle verbs of high idiomaticity tend to take the continuous order, Luo, citing multiple counterexamples, shows that many idiomatic uses of particle verbs vary in word order: some occur only in the continuous, e.g. I lay down the law i , and others only in the discontinuous order, e.g. I let one's hair down i . Chapter 4 deals with particle placement in transitive particle verbs, which is arguably the thorniest problem in the study of particle verbs. [Extracted from the article]

Se presenta una reseña del libro "Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish. A Contrastive Study with English" de Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús y Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla.

The article reviews the book "Functional Discourse Grammar: A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure," by Kees Hengeveld and J. Lachlan Mackenzie.

The article reviews the book "Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In Honour of Lachlan Mackenzie," edited by Mike Hannay and Gerard J. Steen.

The article reviews the book "More Support for More-Support: The role of Processing Constraints on the Choice Between Synthetic and Analytic Comparative Forms," by Britta Mondorf.