Language and Context - Softcover

Leckie-Tarry, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855672723 ISBN 13: 9781855672727

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

Language and Context breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between register, genre and context. Leckie-Tarry argues convincingly and engagingly for a functional theory of language which specifies register in terms of contextual and linguistic features, and which suggests a discursive relationship between the two. Moving beyond the limits of much of today's theory, this accessible volume develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between text, context, langage function and linguistic form. Helen Leckie-Tarry, a specialist in the area of 'register and applied linguistics', died in 1991, aged 49. Although she had finished a large part of this work, her notes and draft chapters have been extensively edited by Professor David Birch. David Birch is currently Professor of Communication and media Studies at Central Queensland University, Australia, and previously taught at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and the National University of Singapore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1855672723
• ISBN 13: 9781855672727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Birch David