Functional and systemic linguistics : approaches and uses ; edited by Eija Ventola

Other Authors: Ventola, Eija
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, c1991
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 55
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Discourse strategies and discourse types, Text production and dynamic text semantics, Towards probabilistic interpretations, A functional model of the system of sentence structures, Constraining the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources during text generation: Towards a computational instantiation of register theory, A treatment of raising and control in systemic grammar, The concept of rank in systemic linguistics, Part II Information flow in English conversation: a new approach to the given- new distinction, Minimal exchanges in english discourse, The interpretation of language as code and language as behavior: a description of evaluative statements, The static and dynamic choices of responding: toward the process of building social reality by the developmentally disordered, Fisrt- and second -order registers in education, Part III Functional theory, scientism, and altruism: a critique of functional linguistics and its applications to writing, Grammar, technocracy and the noun: distilling knowledge and scaffolding text, From clinical report to clinical story: two ways of writing about a medical case, Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts, Another perspective on coherence and cohesive harmony, Cohesion coherence: scientific texts, The use of systemic linguistics to describe student summaries at university level, Non-native writing and native revising of scientific articles.