Functional and systemic linguistics : approaches and uses / edited by Eija Ventola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ventola, Eija.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 55.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;v55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Systemic grammar.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Discourse analysis.

Language and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Functional and Systemic Linguistics".

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Part I

Discourse strategies and discourse types / Enkvist, Nils Erik

Text production and dynamic text semantics / Lemke, Jay L.

Towards probabilistic interpretations / Halliday, Μ. A. K.

A functional model of the system of sentence structures / Daneš, František

Constraining the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources during text generation: Towards a computational instantiation of register theory / Bateman, John A. / Paris, Cécile L.

A treatment of raising and control in systemic grammar / Teich, Elke

The concept of rank in systemic linguistics / McGregor, William

Part II

Information flow in English conversation: A new approach to the Given - New distinction / Geluykens, Ronald

Minimal exchanges in English discourse / Davies, Eirian

The interpenetration of language as code and language as behavior: A description of evaluative statements / Tsui, Amy Β. M.

The static and dynamic choices of responding: Toward the process of building social reality by the developmentally disordered / Fine, Jonathan

First- and second-order registers in education / Christie, Frances

Part III

Functional theory, scientism, and altruism: A critique of functional linguistics and its applications to writing / Couture, Barbara

Grammar, technocracy, and the noun: Technocratic values and cognitive linguistics / Thibault, Paul J.

Nominalization in science and humanities: Distilling knowledge and scaffolding text / Martin, J. R.

From clinical report to clinical story: Two ways of writing about a medical case / Francis, Gill / Kramer-Dahl, Anneliese

Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts / Nwogu, Kevin / Bloor, Thomas

Another perspective on coherence and cohesive harmony / Hoey, Michael

Cohesion coherence: Scientific texts / Parsons, Gerald

The use of systemic linguistics to describe student summaries at university level / Drury, Helen

Non-native writing and native revising of scientific articles / Ventola, Eija / Mauranen, Anna

Backmatter

Notes:

Collection of papers from the 16th International Systematics Congress held in Helsinki in 1989.

Collection of papers from the 16th International Systemics Congress held in Helsinki in 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110883527

311088352X

OCLC:

979693097