Meaning and Form

. Ed(s): Berry, Margaret; Butler, Christopher; Fawcett, Robin; Huang, Guowen

ISBN 10: 1567502555 / ISBN 13: 9781567502558

Published by ABC-CLIO, 1996

About this Item

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 Editor(s): Berry, Margaret; Butler, Christopher; Fawcett, Robin; Huang, Guowen. Series: Advances in Discourse Processes. Num Pages: 678 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 909. . 1996. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meaning and Form
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567502555
• ISBN 13: 9781567502558
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 tense, and lexis and the nominal group. Part III and IV discuss the concept of cohesive harmony, and the value of Halliday's work in machine translation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Authors

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 at City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. He is the Honorary Chair of CAoE and the regional representative of IEA. His recent research interests include discourse analysis, functional linguistics, applied linguistics, ecolinguistics, and translation.