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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812726403321

Titolo

Relations and functions within and around language / / edited by Peter H. Fries ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2002

ISBN

1-281-29468-3

9786611294687

1-84714-453-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Collana

Open linguistics series

Altri autori (Persone)

FriesPeter Howard

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Discourse analysis

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; Contributors; Introduction; PART ONE: THEORY; 1 Relations and Functions within and around Language: The Systemic-Functional Tradition; 2 Ideology, Intertextuality and the Communication of Science; 3 Interpersonal Meaning and the Discursive Construction of Action, Attitudes and Values: The Global Modal Program of One Text; 4 The Flow of Information in a Written English Text; 5 Intrastratal and Interstratal Relations in Language and Their Functions; PART TWO: APPLICATION; 6 Memory and Discourse; 7 Highlighting in Stratificational-Cognitive Linguistics; 8 Interpreting Discourse

9 Prosody and Emotion in a Sample of Real Speech 10 Phasal Analysis within Communication Linguistics: Two Contrastive Discourses; 11 Some Aspects of Coherence in a Conversation; Appendix: Conversation (Interview) between Sue and Kay; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Currently there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has involved both written and spoken corpora and those which combine spoken and written text. Most text analyses address written texts - often literary works - but detailed discussion of the language of a single oral text from multiple perspectives has rarely been published. This book is among the first to integrate the analysis of the language of spoken and written texts. It



describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of fun