Systemic Functional Language Description

Making Meaning Matter
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8153-9508-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars, the book demonstrates how advances in SFL have developed to reflect the breadth of variation in language and how descriptive methodologies for language have evolved in turn. Taken together, the volume offers a comprehensive account of Systemic Functional Language description, providing a foundation for practice and further research for students and scholars in descriptive linguistics, SFL, and theoretical linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, J. R.

Doran, Y. J.

Figueredo, Giacomo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents

- Describing languages, understanding language: Systemic Functional theory and description

Y.J. Doran and J.R. Martin

Part I: Understanding grammar

- Axial argumentation below the clause: The verbal group in Khorchin Mongolian

Dongbing Zhang

- Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in interpersonal grammar: A case study of Classical Tibetan mood

Pin Wang

- Experiential cryptotypes: reasoning about process type

Beatriz Quiroz

- Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in textual grammar: theme in Brazilian Portuguese

Giacomo Figueredo

- Arguments for seeing Theme-Rheme and Topic-Comment as separate functional structures

Randy J. LaPolla

Part II: Contextualising grammar

- Functional language typology: A discourse semantic perspective

J.R. Martin and Beatriz Quiroz

- Construing relations between scientific activities through Mandarin Chinese

Jing Hao

- The Baboon and the Bee: Exploring register patterns across languages

David Rose

- Language shift: Bilingual exchange structure in classroom interactions

Harni Kartika Ningsih

- Academic formalisms: Toward a semiotic typology

Y.J. Doran

Über Autor(innen)

J.R. Martin is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is also Deputy Director of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building.
Y.J. Doran is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Research Fellow at the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Giacomo Figueredo is a Researcher and Senior Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil.