Systemic functional linguistics in the digital age / edited by Sheena Gardner and Sian Alsop.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardner, Sheena, editor.

Alsop, Sian, editor.

Series:

Functional linguistics.

Functional Linguistics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics)--Data processing.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Systemic grammar--Data processing.

Systemic grammar.

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Equinox Publishing Ltd., [2016]

Summary:

Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age explores the insights that SFL offers to help us understand and explain the new meanings afforded through digital channels and how they are shaped by and shape their digital contexts. SFL offers a sophisticated architecture for exploring how meanings are construed in context, and this volume focuses on three specific perspectives. Part 1 examines texts that are 'born digital' or digitally conceived, such as tweets and blogs. Part 2 focuses on texts that 'achieve digitality', or have come to replace or supplement non-digital texts with similar functions, such as an online university lecture or medical consultation. Part 3 examines and interprets texts singly or in corpora using digital tools and allows us to see patterns within and across texts that are generally not visible in single texts. The volume offers contributions from international scholars which both initiate new and sustain current lines of enquiry in SFL research within the unifying context of digitality.

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ISBN:

9781487570163

1487570163

9781781794784

1781794782