Meaning in Context
Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies
Published on 21. April 2008
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8264-9735-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Meaning in Context" brings together some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume to explore the construction of meaning in language."Meaning in Context" collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues including corpus linguistics, multimodality, language technology, world Englishes and language evolution.This forward-thinking volume will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and systemic functional linguistics.
Reviews / Votes
"Not many linguistics put their theory on the line and purposefully re/design it for the applications it needs to serve. This group of scholars does so, par excellence, across such diverse arenas as education, computer science, language policy and medicine. East meets West in a series of insightful discussions befitting the launch of the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University Hong Kong" -- Professor J. R. Martin, University of Sydney, AustraliaMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-9735-2 (9780826497352)
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E-Book
04/2008
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Person
Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.
Content
Introduction, Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); 1. Intelligent Language Applications - Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia); 2. Topical Theme in Chinese, Fang Yan (Tsinghua University, China); 3. Realizational Systems, David Butt (Macquarie University, Australia); 4. Nominalization, Verbalization and Grammatical Metaphor - Zhu Yongsheng (Fudan University, China). 5. Explicitation, Erich Steiner (University of Saarland, Germany); 6. Multimodal Meaning - Hu Zhuanglin (Peking University, China); 7. Ontogenesis of Grammatics, Geoff Williams (University College, London, UK); 8. Code-switching and SFL, Huang Guowen (Sun Yat-sen University, China); 9. Understanding Semantic Theory, Ruqaiya Hasan; 10. Creativity and Linguistic Globalization, Edwin Thumboo (National University of Singapore, Singapore); 11. Linguistic Structure and SFL, John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany); 12. Systemic Functional Grammar and Language Technology, Jon Patrick (University of Sydney, Australia).