Relations and functions within and around language / edited by Peter H. Fries ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fries, Peter Howard.

Series:

Open linguistics series.

Open linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Currently there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has involved both written and spoken corpora and those which combine spoken and written text. Most text analyses address written texts - often literary works - but detailed discussion of the language of a single oral text from multiple perspectives has rarely been published. This book is among the first to integrate the analysis of the language of spoken and written texts. It describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of fun

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART ONE: THEORY; 1 Relations and Functions within and around Language: The Systemic-Functional Tradition; 2 Ideology, Intertextuality and the Communication of Science; 3 Interpersonal Meaning and the Discursive Construction of Action, Attitudes and Values: The Global Modal Program of One Text; 4 The Flow of Information in a Written English Text; 5 Intrastratal and Interstratal Relations in Language and Their Functions; PART TWO: APPLICATION; 6 Memory and Discourse; 7 Highlighting in Stratificational-Cognitive Linguistics; 8 Interpreting Discourse

9 Prosody and Emotion in a Sample of Real Speech 10 Phasal Analysis within Communication Linguistics: Two Contrastive Discourses; 11 Some Aspects of Coherence in a Conversation; Appendix: Conversation (Interview) between Sue and Kay; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-29468-3

9786611294687

1-84714-453-5

OCLC:

568446114