
English Text
System and structure
J.R. Martin(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 18. November 1992
Book
Hardback
620 pages
978-90-272-2079-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis inspired by Halliday and Hasan's Cohesion in English. The analyses presented were developed within three main theoretical and applied contexts: (i) educational linguistics (especially genre-based literacy programmes) (ii) critical linguistics (as manifested in the development of social semiotics) and (iii) computational linguistics (in dialogue with the various text generation projects based on systemic approaches to grammar and discourse). English Text's major contribution is to outline one way in which a rich semantically oriented functional grammar can be systematically related to a theory of discourse semantics, including deconstruction of contextual issues (i.e. register, genre and ideology). The chapters have been organized with the needs of undergraduate students in theoretical linguistics and postgraduate students in applied linguistics in mind.
Reviews / Votes
This is already an enormously valuable contribution to the field. Moreover, with the richly exemplified and detailed introductions to the areas discussed in the book, the questions raised by English Text establish entire research directions in functional and other linguistics for the coming decade, encouraging combinations and interactions of areas that had previously not been at all evident. The book thus provides not only a crucial text book for students but a substantial research agenda for the semantics of discourse for some time to come. -- John A. Bateman, University of StirlingMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
1245 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2079-0 (9789027220790)
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Content
1. 1. Discourse semantics: a proposal for triple articulation; 2. 2. Negotiation: shaping meaning through dialogue; 3. 3. Identification: REFERENCE as semantic choice; 4. 4. Conjunction and continuity: the logic of English text; 5. 5. Ideation: the company words keep; 6. 6. Texture: interleaving discourse semantics, lexicogrammar and phonology; 7. 7. Context: register, genre and ideology; 8. References; 9. Index