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UNINA9910787614003321 |
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Systemic functional linguistics : exploring choice / / edited by Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett, Gerard O'Grady [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-89173-1 |
1-107-46134-0 |
1-107-45927-3 |
1-107-47316-0 |
1-107-47215-6 |
1-107-46855-8 |
1-139-58307-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 533 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Functionalism (Linguistics) |
Systemic grammar |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction: choice in contemporary systemic functional theory""; ""What is the concept of choice?""; ""How does choice contribute to linking language and cognition?""; ""How is choice constrained by language use?""; ""How does choice contribute to linking language and social context?""; ""How can we study choice in text?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Part I Choice: Theory and Debate""; ""1 Meaning as choice""; ""Preamble""; ""1.1 Choosing to mean""; ""1.2 Systems and system networks"" |
""1.3 Probability and prediction""""1.4 Not choosing- or choosing not to choose?""; ""1.5 How many choice points?""; ""1.6 Choice and metafunction""; ""1.7 Meaning beyond the core""; ""2 The teleological illusion in linguistic �drift�: choice and purpose in semantic evolution""; ""2.1 �Choice�: a problem, an opportunity, and a proposal""; ""2.2 Background to the problem: �natural� selection and purpose in semiotic behaviour""; ""2.3 Contradictory voices in neo- |
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Darwinism""; ""2.4 �Choice� and �innovation� in twenty-first-century biology"" |
""2.5 The renewal of nature through semiotic experience: the teleological illusion""""2.6 Motivated selection and choice: bridging the lacunae in our depiction of experience""; ""3 Choice and language variation: some theoretical reflections""; ""3.1 Halliday on choice in language: from the 1960s papers on grammar to the 1990s quantitative studies""; ""3.1.1 Language as a networked system of choices and probabilistic grammar""; ""3.1.2 Register as resetting of the probabilities""; ""3.1.3 Markedness""; ""3.1.4 Conditional probabilities""; ""3.1.5 System, register and instance"" |
""3.2 From frequency to probability: Matthiessen�s report""""3.2.1 Instantiation""; ""3.2.2 Probability profiles""; ""3.2.3 A discussion of Matthiessen�s findings""; ""3.3 Paradigmatic choice remodelled as syntagmatic choice""; ""3.3.1 Tucker on choice and phraseology""; ""3.3.2 Phraseology and probabilistic grammar""; ""3.3.3 A comparative reading of Tucker�s proposal""; ""3.4 Conclusions""; ""4 Grammatical choice and communicative motivation: a radical systemic approach""; ""4.1 Choice as a systemic functional concept""; ""4.2 Fawcett on choice""; ""4.3 Where do features come from?"" |
""4.4 Commutation version 2.0""""4.5 The complex content plane of the sign""; ""4.5.1 Vagueness""; ""4.5.2 Markedness: different degrees of underspecification""; ""4.5.3 Non-monadic signs, the complex interrelationship between signs""; ""4.5.4 Metafunctional diversity""; ""4.5.5 Multifunctionality""; ""4.6 Conclusion: towards a more radical systemic approach""; ""5 Semantic options and complex functions: a recursive view of choice""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.1.1 Aims""; ""5.1.2 Organisation of the chapter""; ""5.2 The problem with choice""; ""5.3 Choice as a simple term in SFL"" |
""5.3.1 System networks"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics. Bringing together a global team of well-established and up-and-coming systemic functional linguists, it shows how the different senses of choice as process and as product are interdependent, and how they operate at all levels of language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it covers a range of linguistic viewpoints, informed by evolutionary theory, psychology, sociology and neuroscience, to produce a complex but unifying account of the issues. This book offers a critical examination of choice and is ideal for students and researchers working in all areas of functional linguistics as well as cognitive linguistics, second-language acquisition, neurolinguistics and sociolinguistics. |
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