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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825822303321

Autore

Young Lynne

Titolo

Language as behaviour, language as code : a study of academic English / / Lynne Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub., , 1990

ISBN

1-283-17421-9

9786613174215

90-272-8327-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 8

Disciplina

428.00711

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - Foreign speakers - Social aspects

Interdisciplinary approach in education - Social aspects

Education, Higher - Social aspects

English language - Social aspects

Pragmatics

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.

Nota di contenuto

LANGUAGE AS BEHAVIOUR, LANGUAGE AS CODE A STUDY OF ACADEMIC ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Chapter 1: The Social Functional Linguistic Tradition and Approach; Diagram 1: Communication linguistics model of language; Chapter 2: Analysis; PART ONE: SITUATING THE ANALYSIS; PART TWO: PHASAL ANALYSIS; Chapter 3: Results; PART ONE: REGISTERIAL CONSTRUCTS; PART TWO: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SPOKEN DISCOURSES AND WRITTEN TEXTS; Chapter 4: Conclusion; PART ONE: A REAPPRAISAL OF THE MODEL OF ANALYSIS

PART TWO: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; Appendix 1: Transitivity System; Appendix 2: Mood System; Appendix 3: Chart of E.R. Ewer's Modals; Appendix 4: Charts of Phasal Characteristics: Discourses and Texts; Appendix 5: Transcripts of Discourses and Texts; Appendix 6: Discourse and Text Phases; Appendix 7: Sample Worksheet for Analysis; References


Sommario/riassunto

This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach to the analysis of language in order to test whether something of significance can be said about the typology of texts and discourse. The approach chosen is Systemic Functional Grammar, with its roots in the Prague School of Linguistics and the London School of J.R. Firth.