Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective / Edition 1

by Ruqaiya Hasan, Christian Matthiessen, Jonathan Webster

Overview

Continuing Discourse on Language offers a selective account of the evolution of important aspects of M.A.K. Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics over the last couple of decades. This edition brings together the two volumes, originally published separately, as one book for the first time.

The range of topics covered here includes not only certain fundamental concepts at the level of theory but also an account of the range of applications enabled by the descriptive framework that the theory has generated.

Given its acclaimed perspective on language as social semiotic, SFL has always located semiotic activity in relation to human life. In this collection, internationally recognised authors demonstrate the ways in which SFL relates to recent research on cognition, on socio-cultural contexts, and in computational linguistics. A theory is only as good as the description and application it enables: conceptualising the relations of theory and practice as a dialectic, SFL has created a framework for the analysis of language from the level of cultural context to that of the media for semiotic expressions.

Continuing Discourse on Language provides an insight into the continuing evolution of the impressive range of frames of description and their applications. From typology to multi-modality; from models of discourse analysis to translation and stylistics; from the role of language in knowledge construal to language education; genre based pedagogy and web based learning: this collection provides a rich resource for students and researchers in language study for understanding, practicing and applying a linguistics keenly aware of the role of language in social life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845531133
Publisher:	Equinox Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2007
Pages:	1000
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 2.19(d)

Table of Contents

Volume One Part One: The Beginnings 1. M.A.K. Halliday: The Early Years 1925-70 (Jonathan Webster) 2. The Development of Systemic-Functional Linguistics in China (Zhang Delu, Edward Mc Donald, Fang Yan and Huang Guowen) 3. Introduction: A Working Model of Language (Ruqaiya Hasan) Part Two: Around Language 4. Language and Society in a Systemic Functional Perspective (Ruqaiya Hasan) 5. Method and Imagination in Halliday's Science of Linguistics (David Butt, University of Sydney) 6. The Interpersonal Gateway to the Meaning of Mind
Unifying the Inter- and Intraorganism Perspective on Language (Paul Thibault) 7. Topics in Multimodality (Radan Martinec) Part Three: With Language 8. What People Do to Know
The Construction of Knowledge as a Social-semiotic Activity (Astika Kappagoda, University of Wollongong) 9. Developing Dimensions of an Educational Linguistics (Frances Christie, University of Sydney and Len Unsworth, University of New England, Australia) 10. Designing Literacy Pedagogy: Scaffolding Democracy in the Classroom (J.R. Martin and David Rose, University of Sydney) 11. Grammatics in Schools (Geoff Williams, University of Sydney) 12. SFL in Text Based, Web-Enhanced Language Study (Carol Taylor Torsello and Anthony Baldry, both Universita di Padova) 13. SFL in Computational Contexts: A Contemporary History (Mick O'Donnell and John Bateman, University of Bremen) 14. Acquired Language Disorders: Some Functional Insights (Elizabeth Armstrong, Macquarie University, Alison Ferguson, University of Newcastle, Australia, Lynne Mortensen, Macquarie University and Leanne Togher, University of Sydney) 15. SFL and the Study of Literature (Jonathan Webster and Annabelle Lukin) 16. Semantic Variation (Geoff Williams) 17. Halliday and Translation Theory: Enhancing the Options, Broadening the Range and Keeping the Ground (Erich Steiner, Universitat des Saarlandes) Volume Two Part Four: Inside Language 18. The 'Architecture' of Language According to Systemic Functional Theory: Developments since the 1970s (Christian Matthiessen) 19. From Microfunction to Metaphor: Learning Language and Learning through Language (Clare Painter, University of New South Wales, Beverley Derewianka, University of Wollongong, and Jane Torr, Macquarie University) 20. The Work of Concepts: Context and Metafunction in the Systemic Functional Model (David Butt and Rebekah Wegener, Macquarie University) 21. Field and Multimodal Texts (Wendy Bowcher, Tokyo Gakugei University) 22. Models of Discourse (Carmel Cloran, University of Wollangong, Virginia Stuart-Smith and Lynne Young, Carleton University) 23. Unfolding Theme: The Development of Clausal and Textual Perspectives on Theme (Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool) 24. Semantic Networks: The Description of Linguistic Meaning in SFL (Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran, Geoff Williams, and Annabelle Lukin) 25. Invoking Attitude: The Play of Graduation in Appraising Discourse (J.R. Martin and Susan Hood) 26. Lexicogrammar in Systemic Functional Linguistics (Christian Matthiessen) 27. Typology of MOOD (Kazuhiro Teruya, Ernest Akerejola, Macquarie University, Thomas Andersen, Alice Caffarel, University of Sydney, Julia Lavid, Universidade Computense, Christian Matthiessen, Uwe Helm Petersen, Odense Universitet, Pattama Patpong, Macquarie University, and Flemming Smedegaard, Odense Universitet) 28. Auxiliary Extensions (Robin Fawcett, Cardiff University) 29. Between Lexis and Grammar (Gordon Tucker, Cardiff University) 30. Intonation in Systemic Functional Linguistics (William Greaves, York University, Canada)