English Text
System and structure
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 1992
XIV, 620 pages
978-90-272-7404-5 (ISBN)
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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.
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- ENGLISH TEXT System and Structure
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Discourse semantics: A proposal for triple articulation
- 1.1 A context for discourse analysis
- 1.2 System and structure
- 1.3 The metafunctional organisation of meaning
- 1.3.1 Metafunction and system
- 1.3.2 Metafunction and structure
- 1.4 Stratification
- 1.5 Discourse structure
- 1.6 Discourse systems
- NOTES
- 2. Negotiation: Shaping meaning through dialogue
- 2.1 MOOD - basic resources for negotiation
- 2.2 SPEECH FUNCTION and MOOD: adjacency pairs
- 2.3 EXCHANGE STRUCTURE
- 2.4 Extending constituency - exchanges, moves and acts
- 2.4.1 Moves and acts
- 2.4.2 Move complexes
- 2.5 Replacing constituency - dependency models
- 2.5.1 Fawcett et al. 's systemic flowchart
- 2.5.2 Butler's daughter dependency approach
- 2.6 Exchange dynamics: non-adjacent pairs
- 2.6.1 Tracking
- 2.6.2 Challenging
- 2.7 Consensus and debate
- 2.8 Analy
- 2.8.1 Classroom discourse
- 2.8.2 Service encounters
- 2.9 Envoi
- NOTES
- 3. Identification: Reference as semantic choice
- 3.1 Learning to refer
- 3.2 Participant identification
- 3.3 Participant identification in English: system
- 3.3.1 Phoricity
- 3.3.2 Reference as semantic choice
- 3.3.3 Phoricity and context: retrieving presumed information
- 3.3.4 IDENTIFICATION in [3:1]
- 3.4 IDENTIFICATION and stratification
- 3.4.1 Participants and nominal groups
- 3.4.2 Grammaticalising phoricity
- 3.4.3 IDENTIFICATION and ideational grammar
- 3.4.4 Grammatical metaphor
- 3.5 Participant identification in English: structure
- 3.5.1 Reference chains
- 3.5.2 Two texts analysed
- 3.6 Location and manner
- 3.7 IDENTIFICATION a n d NEGOTIATION
- 4. Conjunction & continuity: The logic of English text
- 4.1 The limits of grammar
- 4.2 Conjunctive relations in English: general issues
- 4.2.1 Diversification
- 4.2.2 Logico-semantic relations
- 4.2.3 Internal and external relations
- 4.2.4 Implicit and explicit relations
- 4.3 External relations: system
- 4.3.1 External temporal relations
- 4.3.2 External consequential relations
- 4.3.3 External comparative relations
- 4.3.4 External additive relations
- 4.3.5 External locative relations
- 4.4 Internal relations: system
- 4.4.1 Internal comparative relations
- 4.4.2 Internal additive relations
- 4.4.3 Internal consequential relations
- 4.4.4 Internal temporal relations
- 4.4.5 Distinguishing internal and external relations
- 4.5 CONTINUITY
- 4.6 CONJUNCTION in English: structure
- 4.6.1 Elaborating retícula
- 4.6.2 Range
- 4.6.3 Direction of dependency
- 4.6.4 Contiguity
- 4.7 Analysis of two texts
- 4.7.1 Notational con
- 4.7.2 Analysis
- 4.8 Constituency, dependency and conjunctive relations
- 4.9 Grammatical metaphor and conjunctive structure
- 4.10 CONJUNCTION, IDENTIFICATION and NEGOTIATION
- NOTES
- 5. Ideation: The company words keep
- 5.1 Lexical departure
- 5.2 Describing lexis
- 5.2.1 Dictionary and thesaurus
- 5.2.2 Collocation
- 5.2.3 Lexis as delicate grammar
- 5.2.4 Lexical relations in cohesion analysis
- 5.2.5 Lexical cohesion and field
- 5.3 Lexical relations: system
- 5.3.1 The problem of units
- 5.3.2 Taxonomic relations
- 5.3.2.1 Superordination
- 5.3.2.2 Composition
- 5.3.3 Nuclear relations
- 5.3.4 Activity sequences
- 5.4 Lexical relations: structure
- 5.4.1 Preparing the text
- 5.4.1.1 Unit of analysis
- 5.4.1.2 Experiential metaphor (nominalisation)
- 5.4.1.3 Lexical rendering
- 5.4.1.4 Lexical strings
- 5.4.2 Text analysis
- 5.4.2.1 Categories
- 5.4.2.2 Passes
- 5.4.2.3 Analysis
- 5.4.2.4 Kickball
- 5.5 Lexical relations and cohesive harmony
- 5.6 Lexical relations and discourse semantics
- NOTES
- 6. Texture: Interleaving discourse semantics, lexicogrammar and phonology
- 6.1 Models of texture
- 6.1.1 Cohesion and register
- 6.1.2 Linguistic resources
- 6.1.3 Modularity and interaction
- 6.1.4 The role of grammatical metaphor
- 6.1.5. Textual meaning
- 6.1.6 Context
- 6.2 Grammatical meta
- 6.2.1 Ideational metaphor
- 6.2.1.1 Logical metaphor
- 6.2.1.2 Experiential metaphor
- 6.2.2 Interpersonal metaphor
- 6.2.3 Textual metaphor
- 6.3 Interaction patterns
- 6.3.1 Cohesive harmony
- 6.3.2 Method of development
- 6.3.3 Point
- 6.3.4 Modal responsibility
- 6.4 Texture and context
- NOTES
- 7. Context: Register, genre and ideology
- 7.1 Context
- 7.1.1 Register theory
- 7.1.2 Communicative planes: register, genre and ideology
- 7.2 Register
- 7.2.1 Mode
- 7.2.1.1 Monologue/dialogue
- 7.2.1.2 Action/refl
- 7.2.2 Tenor
- 7.2.2.1 Status
- 7.2.2.2 Contact
- 7.2.2.3 Affect
- 7.2.3 Field
- 7.2.3.1 Activity sequence
- 7.2.3.2 Taxonomy
- 7.2.3.3 Field agnation
- 7.3 Genre
- 7.3.1 Particle, wave and field
- 7.3.1.1 Partic
- 7.3.1.1.1 Synoptic perspectives
- 7.3.1.1.2 Dynamic perspectives
- 7.3.1.2 Prosody
- 7.3.1.3 Wave (periodicity)
- 7.3.2 Genre agnation
- 7.3.2.1 Factual genres
- 7.3.2.2 Narrative genres
- 7.3.2.3 Genre as system
- 7.3.3 Genre and register
- 7.4 Ideology: discursive power
- 7.4.1 Coding orientation: ideology as system
- 7.4.2 Contratextuality: ideology as process
- 7.4.3 Prejudice
- 7.4.4 Naturalisation (inertia)
- NOTES
- References
- Index
