UID:
almahu_9949179435002882
Format:
1 online resource (686 p.)
ISBN:
90-272-8623-X
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9786613092908
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1-283-09290-5
Content:
This second volume in honour of Michael Halliday contains three sections: The Design of Language, Text and Discourse and Exploring Language as Social Semiotic, and concludes with a recent interview conducted by Paul Thibault in which Halliday provides further insights in his theory of language. The essential design features of language are semantic, lexico-grammatical and phonological. Text for Halliday is a semantic unit expressed by the lexico-grammatical and phonological patterns in language. The papers in the first section study aspects of these three strata of language and the relation be
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Description based upon print version of record.
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LANGUAGE TOPICS II; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Contributors; 1. The Design of Language; Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors; English intensifiers and their idiosyncrasies; The tradition of structural analogy; SYSPRO: a computerized method for writing system networks and deriving selection expressions; Cultural, situational and modal labels in dictionaries of English; Morphological islands: constraint or preference?; Some ""dia-categories""; English quantifiers from noun sources; Two types of semantic widening and their relation to metaphor
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2. Text and DiscourseA comparison of process types in Poe and Melville; Intonationand the grammar of speech; Some preliminary evidence for phonetic adjustment strategies in communication difficulty; Evaluative text analysis; Gobbledegook: the tyranny of linguistic conceits; Text strategies: single, dual, multiple; Finishing other's talk: some structural and pragmatic features of completion offers; The textual basis of verbal inflections: the case of Yatzachi Zapotec; On the concepts of ""style"" and ""register"" in sociolinguistics
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Social constraints on grammatical variables: tense choice in EnglishSome phonological constraints on grammatical formations: examples from four languages; Collocation: a progress report; Linguistic analysis of real estate commission agreements in a civil law suit; Antithesis: astudy in clause combining and discourse structure; 3. Exploring Language as Social Semiotic; The hegemony of information; Many sentences and difficult texts; Explaining moments of conflict in discourse; Is there a literary language?; Coherence in language and culture; Semiotics of document design
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Notes on critical linguisticsThe structure of situations and the analysis of text; The place of socio-semiotics in contemporary thought; Changing the subject; 4. An Interview with Michael Halliday; An Interview with Michael Halliday; List of references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-2044-1
Language:
English
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