Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar : Convergence and Divergence

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911009269303321
• Autore: Tucker Gordon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2020; ©2020
• ISBN: 1-78179-688-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): HuangGuowen; FontaineLise; McDonaldEdward
• Disciplina: 415.01/83
• Soggetti: Functionalism (Linguistics); Semiotics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the editors -- Introduction -- Section 1 ‘Divergence’ -- 1. Finding complementarity in the approaches of M. A. K. Halliday and Robin Fawcett -- 2. Relating form and meaning -- 3. On the abstractness of levels of description in Systemic Functional Linguistics -- 4. Embedding in the Cardiff Grammar: A comparative study -- 5. ‘United but not the same’ -- Section 2 ‘Convergence’ -- 6. From form to meaning in the Cardiff model of language and its use: A functional-syntactic analysis of ‘He has been talking about going to the Grand Canyon with Margaret for many years’ -- 7. On the meaning-form interface of the Cardiff Grammar -- 8. Lexical representation in the Cardiff Grammar: An appraisal -- 9. Referring and the Nominal Group: A closer look at the selector element -- Section 3 ‘Description’ -- 10. Quantifying things: The ‘quantifying modifier’ and its raising construction in Japanese -- 11. Intonation in semantic system networks -- 12. On choosing the Subject Theme -- 13. Negation in Japanese -- 14. An alternative model of the transitivity system of Chinese -- 15. The ideational semantics of the canonical existential clause in English -- Section 4 ‘Towards Consilience’ -- 16. ‘Models – predictions – data: An (un)problematic ; relationship?’ -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This volume brings together contributions to a key area of interest within the framework of systemic functional linguistics: the role of meaning in the lexicogrammar. A key figure in the debate on this role is Robin Fawcett who has long argued for a fully semantic lexicogrammar where the relevant systems are seen as representing 'choices between meanings'. This volume, a festschrift in honour of Fawcett's long-standing contribution to the field, raises important questions related to lexicogrammatical meaning within systemic functional linguistics by examining the meaning-form interface, lexicogrammatical meaning in theme and transitivity, as well as lexis, intonation and its role in computational models. Importantly, discussions in the volume also explore the relationship between alternative approaches to systemic functional lexicogrammar, notably between the Hallidayan model and the Cardiff Grammar model developed primarily by Robin Fawcett"--