English text : system and structure / by J.R. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, J. R., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

English language--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (634 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 semiot

Contents:

ENGLISH TEXTSystem 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 acts2.4.1 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 choice3.3.3 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 issues4.2.1 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 relations4.5 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-612) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49737-8

9786613592606

90-272-7404-5

OCLC:

297329822