A functional discourse grammar for English / / Evelien Keizer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460376703321
• Autore: Keizer Evelien
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-19-957186-4; 0-19-103799-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Collana: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
• Disciplina: 425
• Soggetti: English language - Discourse analysis; English language - Grammar; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover ""; ""A Functional Discourse Grammar for English""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of tables""; ""List of abbreviations and symbols""; ""Abbreviations used in representations""; ""Interpersonal level""; ""Representational level""; ""Morphosyntactic level""; ""Phonological level""; ""Parts-of-speech""; ""Abbreviations used in glosses""; ""1: Why Functional Discourse Grammar?""; ""1.1. Introduction""; ""1.2. Why linguistic theory?""; ""1.3. Why functional?""; ""1.3.1. Some fundamental theoretical issues""; ""1.3.1.1. The purpose of language""; ""1.3.1.2. The object of study""""(i) Central area of interest""; ""(ii) Competence vs. performance""; ""1.3.1.3. Innateness""; ""1.3.1.4. The role of context""; ""1.3.1.5. The nature of linguistic categorization""; ""1.3.2. Formal and functional approaches""; ""1.4. Why discourse?""; ""1.5. What is (in) a grammar?""; ""1.6. Summary""; ""Exercises""; ""Suggestions for further reading""; ""2: The general architecture of FDG""; ""2.1. Introduction""; ""2.2. FDG in its wider context""; ""2.2.1. The Conceptual Component""; ""2.2.2. The Contextual Component""; ""2.2.3. The Output Component""; ""2.3. The Grammatical Component""""2.3.1. Operations""; ""2.3.2. Primitives""; ""2.3.3. Levels of representation""; ""2.3.3.1. General ; structure of the four levels""; ""2.3.3.2. The Interpersonal Level""; ""2.3.3.3. The Representational Level""; ""2.3.3.4. The Morphosyntactic Level""; ""2.3.3.5. The Phonological Level""; ""2.4. Summary""; ""Exercises""; ""Suggestions for further reading""; ""3: The Interpersonal Level""; ""3.1. Introduction""; ""3.2. The organization of the Interpersonal Level""; ""3.3. The Move""; ""3.3.1. General characterization""; ""3.3.2. The head""; ""3.3.3. Modifiers""""3.3.4. Operators""; ""3.4. The Discourse Act""; ""3.4.1. General characterization""; ""3.4.2. The head""; ""3.4.3. Modifiers""; ""3.4.4. Operators""; ""3.5. The Illocution""; ""3.5.1. General characterization""; ""3.5.2. The head""; ""3.5.2.1. Abstract heads""; ""3.5.2.2. Lexical heads""; ""3.5.3. Modifiers""; ""3.5.4. Operators""; ""3.6. The Speech Participants""; ""3.6.1. General characterization""; ""3.6.2. The head""; ""3.6.3. Modifiers""; ""3.6.4. Operators""; ""3.7. Communicated Content""; ""3.7.1. General characterization""; ""3.7.2. The head""; ""3.7.3. Modifiers""""3.7.4. Operators""; ""3.8. Ascriptive Subacts""; ""3.8.1. General characterization""; ""3.8.2. The head""; ""3.8.3. Modifiers""; ""3.8.4. Operators""; ""3.9. Referential Subacts""; ""3.9.1. General characterization""; ""3.9.2. The head""; ""3.9.2.1. Abstract heads""; ""3.9.2.2. Lexical heads""; ""3.9.2.3. Empty heads""; ""3.9.3. Modifiers""; ""3.9.4. Operators""; ""3.10. Summary""; ""Exercises""; ""Suggestions for further reading""; ""4: The Representational Level""; ""4.1. Introduction""; ""4.2. The organization of the Representational Level""; ""4.3. The Propositional Content""
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmaticsdown to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels. The man