New Developments in Systemic Linguistics: Theory and Application v.2
Published on 1. October 1988
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-86187-637-2 (ISBN)
Description
An illustration of the concept that theories develop most creatively in the context of their application, with reference to main developments in the field in recent years. This volume covers many aspects of applied systemic linguistics including language teaching, language and pathology, literary stylistics, socio-linguistic variation, modelling the production and understanding of language in computers, child development and the study of ideologically significant texts such as court proceedings.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
479 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86187-637-2 (9780861876372)
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Content
Part 1 Testing the theory: probabilities in a systemic-functional grammar - the clause complex in English, Christopher Nesbitt and Guenter Plum; the centrality of intonation in English - an experimental validation of some aspects of M.A.K. Halliday's theory of intonation in a Canadian context, James D.Benson et al. Part 2 Descriptive semiotics: text analysis in operation - a multi-level approach, Eija Ventola. Part 3 Educational linguistics: systemic linguistics and the communicative language syllabus, Robin Melrose. Part 4 Ideological linguistics: court discourse as genre - some problems and issues, Sandra Harris. Part 5 Discourse analysis: towards a systemic flowchart model for discourse structure, Robin P.Fawcett et al. Part 6 Cognitive linguistics: describing language as activity - an application to child language, Erich Steiner. Part 7 Literary stylistics: ideational meaning and the "existential fabric" of a poem, David Butt. Part 8 Language pathology: systemic linguistics and language pathology, Nigel Gotteri.