
Structure and Function - A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories
Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond
Christopher S. Butler(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 30. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
579 pages
978-90-272-3072-0 (ISBN)
Description
Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages. Whereas Part 1 confines itself largely to the simplex clause, Part 2 moves from the clause towards the discourse and its context. The first three chapters deal with the areas of illocution, information structuring (topic and focus, theme and rheme, given and new information, etc.), and clause combining within complex sentences. Chapter 4 examines approaches to discourse, text and context across the three theories. The fifth chapter deals with the learning of language by both native and non-native speakers, and applications of the theories in stylistics, computational linguistics, translation and contrastive studies, and language pathology. The final chapter assesses the extent to which each theory attains the goals it sets for itself, and then outlines a programme for the development of an integrated approach responding to a range of criteria of descriptive and explanatory adequacy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
1005 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3072-0 (9789027230720)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Preface; 3. 1. Illocution and related phenomena; 4. 2. Information structure; 5. 3. Complex sentences; 6. 4. Discourse, text and context; 7. 5. Learning and applying the grammar; 8. 6. Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar: A final assessment and some pointers to the future; 9. References; 10. Name index; 11. Language index; 12. Subject index