English Text: System and structure - Hardcover

Martin, J.R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556191154 ISBN 13: 9781556191152

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992

Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis inspired by Halliday and Hasan's Cohesion in English. The analyses presented were developed within three main theoretical and applied contexts: (i) educational linguistics (especially genre-based literacy programmes) (ii) critical linguistics (as manifested in the development of social semiotics) and (iii) computational linguistics (in dialogue with the various text generation projects based on systemic approaches to grammar and discourse). English Text's major contribution is to outline one way in which a rich semantically oriented functional grammar can be systematically related to a theory of discourse semantics, including deconstruction of contextual issues (i.e. register, genre and ideology). The chapters have been organized with the needs of undergraduate students in theoretical linguistics and postgraduate students in applied linguistics in mind.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1556191154
• ISBN 13: 9781556191152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 634