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Linguists honor Michael Halliday, with papers organized in relation to sections of his An Introduction to Functional Grammar, applying his principles to languages other than English. Part I contains sections on textual, interpersonal, and experiential meaning and form. Part II looks at time and ten

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Author:   Margaret Berry ,  Christopher Butler ,  Robin P. Fawcett (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Professor Guowen Huang
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 57
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.909kg
ISBN:  

9781567502558

ISBN 10:   1567502555
Pages:   678
Publication Date:   01 May 1996
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: THE CLAUSE. A: TEXTUAL MEANING AND FORM What is theme?- a(nother) personal view Experiential Enhanced Theme in English Theme and Information until Shakespeare B: INTERPERSONAL MEANING AND FORM On the Concept of an Interpersonal Metafunction in English Modality and Modulation in Chinese Amplification as a Grammatical Prosody: Attitudinal Modification in the Nominal Group C: EXPERIENTIAL MEANING AND FORM Transitivity in Tagalog: a Functional Interpretation A Systemic Functional Approach to Complementation in English Turning Grammar on Itself: Identifying Clauses in Linguistic Discourse Attribution and Identification in Gooniyandi PART II: BELOW THE CLAUSE A: TIME AND TENSE Tense in English Seen Through Systemic-Functional Theory Towards a Systemic Approach to Tense and Aspect in Polish Discourse-Pragmatic Distinctions of the Past and Present in English and Spanish B: LEXIS AND THE NOMINAL GROUP Cultural Classification and System Networks: A Systemic Functional Approach to Lexical Semantics 'NGp of NGp' Constructions: a Functional-Structural Study PART III: ABOVE THE CLAUSE The Development of the Concept of Cohesive Harmony PART IV: ACROSS LANGUAGES A Fragment of a Multilingual Transfer Component and its Relation to Discourse Knowledge Author Index Subject Index

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Robin P. Fawcett is Research Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Computational Linguistics Unit at the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University. Guowen Huang is Professor of Social Science at South China Agricultural University, China

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