Relations and functions within and around language / / edited by Peter H. Fries [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Functionalism (Linguistics); Discourse analysis
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): FriesPeter Howard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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 Speech10 Phasal Analysis within Communication Linguistics: Two Contrastive Discourses; 11 Some Aspects of Coherence in a Conversation; Appendix: Conversation (Interview) between Sue and Kay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: This book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional relations. Part I presents essays from a variety of perspectives on the theory of language as functional relations. Part II presents essays which describe an oral text from a variety of functional perspectives. All of the essays are by linguists interested in oral and written texts who have achieved international recognition in their fields. Illustrated in this book are cognitive, social construction, social praxis and anthropological approaches to the description of text
• Titolo autorizzato: Relations and functions within and around language
• ISBN: 1-4411-0420-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464640303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Open linguistics series.