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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462010403321

Titolo

Functional and systemic linguistics [[electronic resource] ] : approaches and uses / / edited by Eija Ventola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991

ISBN

3-11-088352-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (516 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;v55

Altri autori (Persone)

VentolaEija

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Systemic grammar

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Discourse analysis

Language and education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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