Functional Grammatics

Functional Grammatics

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  • Author: Mary Macken-Horarik
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317364996
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Drawing on resources in systemic functional linguistics, the book envisions a ‘functional grammatics’ relevant to disciplinary domains such as literary study, rhetoric and multimodality. It re-imagines the possibilities of grammar for school English through Halliday’s notion of grammatics. Functional Grammatics is founded on decades of research inspired by systemic functional linguistics, and includes studies of grammatical tools useful to teachers of English, research into visual and multimodal literacies and studies of the genre–grammar connection. It aims to be useful to the interpretation and composition of texts in school English, portable in design across texts and contexts and beneficial for language development. The book will be of interest to researchers and teacher educators, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and practicing teachers committed to evidence-based professional development.


Functional Grammar

Functional Grammar

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  • Author: Simon C. Dik
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3112420128
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

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Exploring English Grammar

Exploring English Grammar

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  • Author: Caroline Coffin
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135692289
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 464

This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional Grammar) can be used to enrich the traditional formal approach. Using a problem-solving approach, readers explore how grammatical structures function in different contexts by using a wide variety of thought-provoking and motivating texts including advertisements, cartoons, phone calls and chatroom dialogue. Each chapter focuses on a real world issue or problem that can be investigated linguistically, such as "mis"-translation or problems arising from a communication disorder. By working on these problems, students will become equipped to understand and analyze formal and functional grammar in different genres and styles. With usable and accessible activities throughout, Exploring English Grammar is ideal for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of English language and linguistics.


Systemic Functional Grammar

Systemic Functional Grammar

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  • Author: J.R. Martin
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009284975
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 479

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics – namely typology and universals. It concentrates in particular on argumentation, carefully explaining how descriptions of nominal group, verbal group and clause systems and structures are motivated, and draws on examples from key texts which display a full range of ideational, interpersonal and textual grammar resources. By working across three world languages from a text-based perspective, and demonstrating how grammar descriptions can be developed and improved, the book establishes the foundations for a groundbreaking functional approach to language typology.


A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese

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  • Author: Eden Sum-hung Li
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1441127496
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

This book presents an analysis of Chinese grammar from a systemic functional perspective. Its main focus is the clausal grammar of Chinese, and Dr Li provides a thorough analysis of Chinese clauses according to their constituent parts. However, uniquely, the second half of the book extends this examination into an analysis of Chinese discourse and text analysis. Professor Halliday's foreword praises Eden Li's thorough analysis, and shows its relevance to the field of systemic functional linguistics in general. Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese provides the reader with a general theoretical framework of grammar and discourse analysis from a systemic functional perspective.


An Introduction to Functional Grammar

An Introduction to Functional Grammar

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  • Author: M.A.K. Halliday
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1444119087
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 700

This third edition of An Introduction to Functional Grammar has been extensively revised. While retaining the organization and coverage of the earlier editions, it incorporates a considerable amount of new material.


Functional Grammar

Functional Grammar

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  • Author: Aleksandr Vladimirovi? Bondarko
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027215421
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for distinguishing between linguistically structured meaning and non-linguistic cognitive content is developed in a discussion on the Category of Aspect and its Environment which includes an analysis of aspectual opposition according to the Prague School. Special attention is also paid to analysing polycentric fields and, specifically, taxis in the Russian language. The book is divided into three sections: Functional Grammar: Subject Matter and Goals Structural Types of Functional-Semantic Fields Categorial Situations. This book is intended for those interested in the general theory of linguistics.


Grammatical Theory

Grammatical Theory

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  • Author: Stefan Müller
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781013294594
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 872

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-​Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.


Predicates and Terms in Functional Grammar

Predicates and Terms in Functional Grammar

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  • Author: A. M. Bolkestein
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110250527
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

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Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

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  • Author: M.A.K. Halliday
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135983488
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1060

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics. Updates to the new edition include: Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further guidance for students, scholars and researchers More on the ecology of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a semantic system A systematic indexing and classification of examples More from corpora, thus allowing for easy access to data Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the relation between grammar, meaning and discourse.