Relations and functions within and around language / edited by Peter H. Fries ... [et al.]. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2002. - viii, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Open linguistics series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Theory: relations and functions within and around language - the systemic-functional tradition, Michael Gregory; ideology, intertextuality and the communication of science, Jay L. Lemke; interpersonal meaning and the discursive construction of action, attitudes and values, Paul J. Thibault; the flow of information in a written English text, Peter H. Fries; intrastratal and interstratal relations in language and their functions, David G. Lockwood; linguistics from a semiotician's perspective, Terry Threadgold. Part 2 Application: memory and dicourse, Stephen A. Tyler; highlighting in stratificational-cognitive linguistics, David G. Lockwood; interpreting discourse, Sydney Lamb; prosody and emotion in a sample of real speech, Wallace Chafe; phasal analysis within communication linguistics -two contrastive discourses, Michael Gregory; some aspects of coherence in a conversation, Peter H. Fries; lexical cohesion, field and genre - parcelling experience and discourse goals, James R. Martin.

0826453694 (pbk.)

2001037094


Functionalism (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis.

P147 / .R45 2002

410.18 FRI