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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810605803321

Titolo

Language and literacy : functional approaches / / edited by Rachel Whittaker, Mick O'Donnell and Anne McCabe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-4411-1994-9

1-282-30993-5

9786612309939

1-4411-1139-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

05.12

Disciplina

410.18

415

Soggetti

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Systemic grammar

Language and education

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

Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; An introduction to language and literacy; Part One: Development of the SFL Literacy Approach; Part Two: SFL Approaches to Literacy in Educational Systems around the World; Part Three: SFL Approaches to Literacy across Disciplines; Index of Terms; Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retrospective view on the development of language education practices, written by eminent linguistics Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, and then shows how this approach is implemented today. The second section presents a detailed analysis of how considerations of literacy education are approached in educational systems around the world. The contributors examine issues such as metadiscourse, genre, cultural politics, and how systemic functional grammar can help to