Text And Context In Functional Linguistics

Author : Mohsen Ghadessy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299673

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Text and Context in Functional Linguistics by Mohsen Ghadessy Pdf

The shift towards a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of language in the last few decades has necessitated new definitions for a number of concepts that linguists have taken for granted for a long time. This volume attempts to demystify the important notions of ‘text’ and ‘context’ by providing clear definitions and examples within the assumptions of Systemic Functional (SF) linguistics. After a discussion of the role and significance of context by three eminent SF linguists in section one, the influence of context on text is dealt with in section two ‘From Context to Language’. Section three ‘From Language to Context’ considers textual features and their relationship to contextual factors. All the contributors base their analyses on data collected from a variety of spoken and written registers of contemporary English.

Author : Helen Leckie-Tarry
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781855672727

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Language and Context by Helen Leckie-Tarry Pdf

Language and Context breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between register, genre and context. Leckie-Tarry argues convincingly and engagingly for a functional theory of language which specifies register in terms of contextual and linguistic features, and which suggests a discursive relationship between the two. Moving beyond the limits of much of today's theory, this accessible volume develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between text, context, langage function and linguistic form. Helen Leckie-Tarry, a specialist in the area of 'register and applied linguistics', died in 1991, aged 49. Although she had finished a large part of this work, her notes and draft chapters have been extensively edited by Professor David Birch. David Birch is currently Professor of Communication and media Studies at Central Queensland University, Australia, and previously taught at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and the National University of Singapore.

Author : Mohsen Ghadessy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236746

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Text and Context in Functional Linguistics by Mohsen Ghadessy Pdf

This text aims to examine the nature of text and context, using theoretical models based in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).

Author : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday,Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher : Deakin University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035344725

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Language, Context, and Text by Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday,Ruqaiya Hasan Pdf

Author : Teun A. van Dijk,Teun Adrianus van Dijk
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Discourse Analysis
ISBN : UOM:39076005973289

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Text and Context by Teun A. van Dijk,Teun Adrianus van Dijk Pdf

Author : Donna R. Miller,Paul Bayley
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Funcionalisme (Lingüística)
ISBN : 1781790647

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Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics by Donna R. Miller,Paul Bayley Pdf

This volume addresses the increasingly typical nature of text and discourse: 'hybridity'. In an SFL perspective, this means that the cultural and situational contexts that tend to activate meanings and wordings must also be seen as being 'hybrid', or as Hasan (2000) has more fittingly put it, 'permeable': "It is not simply that predetermined qualities of genres are being mixed, combined, hybridized: the fact of the matter is that by these devices people extend, elaborate and reclassify their discursive contexts. Derrida's celebrated claim that one cannot not mix genres should really be rephrased as contexts of life cannot but be permeable; the rest follows by the dialectic of language and discursive situation." This is indeed the main message, and mission, of the book, which focuses on hybridity/permeability within the social and cultural contexts in which discourse occurs and of discourse types (covering a wide range of genres, registers, text-types, etc.), but also hybridity within the stratum of lexicogrammar itself. The volume also addresses the implications of hybridity for education and the professions.

Author : Suzanne Eggins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 082645786X

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Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics by Suzanne Eggins Pdf

Introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues>

Author : Suzanne Eggins
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015046441211

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An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics by Suzanne Eggins Pdf

Systemic-functional linguistics is becoming an increasingly popular approach to language, given the range and thoroughness of the analytical techniques it offers, and the variety of applications it has been demonstrated to have.

Author : Donna R. Miller
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Functionalism (Linguistics)
ISBN : 1781795347

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Verbal Art and Systemic Functional Linguistics by Donna R. Miller Pdf

This book provides an overview of the dialectic of theory and practice through which SFL positions itself as an appliable linguistics with reference to the theory of Verbal Art. A concise history of the linguistic study of literature tout court is sketched, as well as the roots of specifically SFL approaches to it. A detailed theoretical description is given of the emergence of systemic functional stylistics and, in particular, of the overall architecture of Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics (SSS), the central descriptive-analytical model created by Ruqaiya Hasan. Subsequently, the correspondences between Hasan's framework and what Jakobson theorized as the empirical linguistic evidence of his 'poetic function', grammatical parallelism and with what he calls 'pervasive parallelism', are delineated and illustrated via the analysis of one poem by D.H. Lawrence, 'Bei Hennef' (1913). Further, the teaching of the language in literature with the tools of SFL/SSS is addressed, and a case study of the experience of guiding students towards this 'special' register awareness in an undergraduate EFL curriculum in Bologna, Italy is offered. Aiming to provide as wide-ranging a view of systemic functional stylistics studies as possible, the volume also presents a synopsis of stylistics research wedded to multimodal/multisemiotic, corpus and translation approaches, broaching certain of the many theoretical issues intrinsically entailed. With special attention to Hasan's stylistic legacy, in closing the author speaks to the future directions systemic functional stylistic studies might take.

Author : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday,Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106010115464

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Language, Context, and Text by Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday,Ruqaiya Hasan Pdf

This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained by reference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text is organized and the kinds of coherence it displays are closely related to the place and the value that it has in its social and cultural environment.

Author : S. Starc,C. Jones,A. Maiorani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137477309

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Meaning Making in Text by S. Starc,C. Jones,A. Maiorani Pdf

Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. The thirteen chapters are all linked theoretically by advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).

Author : Marina Manfredi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8896572355

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Translation Text and Context. Translation Studies and Systemic Functional Linguistics by Marina Manfredi Pdf

Author : Akira Tajino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315396644

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A New Approach to English Pedagogical Grammar by Akira Tajino Pdf

This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach in ESL and EFL contexts. Teaching grammar through an easy-to-understand three-dimensional model, MAP Grammar establishes the clause as the fundamental unit of English and interprets meaning units in the sentence, thus allowing visualizable association between individual grammar items. By focusing on the order of meaning (rather than the order of words) in a sentence, MAP Grammar also distills current descriptive sentence structures (typically taught as five or seven patterns) into one meaning-based sentence structure for teaching and learning. MAP Grammar makes syllabus design and teaching easier in the following ways: Visualizing English grammar in a clear model, allowing association between individual grammar items. Instruction relies on meaning, not metalanguage, making MAP Grammar easy to grasp. The meaning-based sentence structure allows teachers to address global errors, and learners to produce comprehensible English.

Author : Peter Mickan,Elise Lopez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137598493

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Text-Based Research and Teaching by Peter Mickan,Elise Lopez Pdf

Contributions in this book illustrate the many methods available for researching language in context and for the analysis of everyday text types. Each chapter highlights language as a resource for the expression of meanings—a social semiotic resource. Text analysis is used to reveal our capacity to formulate multiple meanings for participation in different social practices—in relationships, in work, in education and in leisure. The approach is applied in text-based teaching and in the critical analysis of public discourses. The texts come from different social spheres including banking, language classes, senate hearings, national tests and textbooks, and interior architecture. Text-based research makes a major contribution to Critical Discourse Analysis. The editors and authors of this book demonstrate the value of text analysis for awareness of the role of language for accountable citizenship and for teaching and learning. This book will be of interest to anyone researching in the fields of language learning and teaching, functional linguistics, multimodality, social semiotics, systemic functional linguistics, text-based teaching, and genre analysis, as well as literacy teachers and undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, media and education.

Author : Mary J. Schleppegrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135620912

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The Language of Schooling by Mary J. Schleppegrell Pdf

This book is about how language is used in the context of schooling. It demonstrates that the variety of English expected at school differs from the interactional language that students use for social purposes outside of school, and provides a linguistic analysis of the challenges of the school curriculum, particularly for non-native speakers of English, speakers of non-standard dialects, and students who have little exposure to academic language outside of schools. The Language of Schooling: A Functional Linguistics Perspective builds on current sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic studies of language in school, but adds a new dimension--the framework of functional linguistic analysis. This framework focuses not just on the structure of words and sentences, but on how texts are constructed--how particular grammatical choices create meanings in the different kinds of texts students are asked to read and write at school. The Language of Schooling: A Functional Linguistics Perspective *provides a functional description of the kinds of texts students are expected to read and write at school; *relates research from other sociolinguistic and language development perspectives to research from the systemic functional linguistics perspective; *focuses on the increasing linguistic demands of contexts of advanced literacy (middle school through college); *analyzes the genres typically encountered at school, with extensive description of the grammatical features of the expository essay, a gatekeeping genre for secondary school graduates; *reviews the grammatical features of disciplinary genres in science and history; and *argues for more explicit attention to language in teaching all subjects, with a particular focus on what is needed for the development of critical literacy. This book will enable researchers and students of language in education to recognize how the grammatical and discourse features of the language of schooling construct the content areas, role relationships, and purposes and expectations of schools. It also will enable them to better understand the nature of language itself and how it emerges from and helps to maintain social structures and institutions, and to apply these understandings to creating classroom environments that build on the strengths students bring to school.