Relations and Functions Within and Around Language (Continuum Collection Series)

Lockwood, David Dr; Spruiell, William; Cummings, Michael

ISBN 10: 0826478751 / ISBN 13: 9780826478757

Published by Continnuum-3PL, 2002

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Type: Book N.B. Crease to top right corner of front cover. Some light marks to covers. Covers and spine a little faded.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Relations and Functions Within and Around Language (Continuum Collection Series)
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826478751
• ISBN 13: 9780826478757
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published
• Weight: 21 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • LINGUISTICS

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Synopsis

Currently there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has involved both written and spoken corpora and those which combine spoken and written text. Most text analyses address written texts - often literary works - but detailed discussion of the language of a single oral text from multiple perspectives has rarely been published.

This book is among the first to integrate the analysis of the language of spoken and written texts. It describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional relations. The essays in Part One present several perspectives on the theory of language as functional relations; those in Part Two discuss a single oral text using a variety of functional perspectives. All of the essays are by linguists interested in oral and written texts, who have achieved international recognition in their fields. Illustrated in this book are cognitive, social construction, social praxis and anthropological approaches to the description of text.

About the Authors

David G. Lockwood is Professor of Linguistics at Michigan State University, USA. He is co-editor, with Michael Cummings, Peter H. Fries and William Spruiell, of Relations and Functions within and around Language (Continuum, 2001).

Michael Cummings is Professor of English at York University in Canada.

Peter H. Fries is Professor of English and Linguistics at Central Michigan University.