Science, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Language Change
A Festschrift for David Banks
Published on 25. November 2019
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-5275-3908-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is intended as a Festschrift to honour the work of David Banks, Emeritus Professor of the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, France. The founder and former President of the Association Francaise de Linguistique Systemique Fonctionnelle, David Banks has been extremely active in bringing together linguists from different theoretical backgrounds in the study of both English and French. The volume includes papers in the three main fields in which he has published: namely, scientific writing, language change and systemic functional linguistics (SFL).
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5275-3908-2 (9781527539082)
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Science, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Language Change
A Festschrift for David Banks
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Persons
Shirley Carter-Thomas is Professor of English Linguistics and Communication at the Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France, and a member of the CNRS research laboratory LATTICE. Her research areas span functional and contrastive linguistics, English for Specific Purposes and writing pedagogy. She is particularly interested in discourse organisation and information structure and in the analysis of the various linguistic features and markers used to signal text organisation in French and English.Clive E. Hamilton is Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the Universite de Paris, France. After teaching English for Academic Purposes for several years, he now teaches courses in English linguistics, phraseology, terminology and specialised translation. His principal research interest lies in the use of specialised corpora in a didactic perspective, including the analysis of French and English academic discourse and the analysis of learner corpora.