Meaning and Form
Systemic Functional Interpretations
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
678 pages
978-1-56750-255-8 (ISBN)
Description
Linguists honor Michael Halliday, with papers organized in relation to sections of his An Introduction to Functional Grammar, applying his principles to languages other than English. Part I contains sections on textual, interpersonal, and experiential meaning and form. Part II looks at time and ten
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
982 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56750-255-8 (9781567502558)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
rry /f Margaret ler /f Christopher cett /f Robin
Content
Introduction PART I: THE CLAUSE. A: TEXTUAL MEANING AND FORM What is theme?- a(nother) personal view Experiential Enhanced Theme in English Theme and Information until Shakespeare B: INTERPERSONAL MEANING AND FORM On the Concept of an Interpersonal Metafunction in English Modality and Modulation in Chinese Amplification as a Grammatical Prosody: Attitudinal Modification in the Nominal Group C: EXPERIENTIAL MEANING AND FORM Transitivity in Tagalog: a Functional Interpretation A Systemic Functional Approach to Complementation in English Turning Grammar on Itself: Identifying Clauses in Linguistic Discourse Attribution and Identification in Gooniyandi PART II: BELOW THE CLAUSE A: TIME AND TENSE Tense in English Seen Through Systemic-Functional Theory Towards a Systemic Approach to Tense and Aspect in Polish Discourse-Pragmatic Distinctions of the Past and Present in English and Spanish B: LEXIS AND THE NOMINAL GROUP Cultural Classification and System Networks: A Systemic Functional Approach to Lexical Semantics 'NGp of NGp' Constructions: a Functional-Structural Study PART III: ABOVE THE CLAUSE The Development of the Concept of Cohesive Harmony PART IV: ACROSS LANGUAGES A Fragment of a Multilingual Transfer Component and its Relation to Discourse Knowledge Author Index Subject Index