Structure and Function A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories. Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond.

BUTLER, Christopher S.

ISBN 10: 9027230714 / ISBN 13: 9789027230713

Published by John Benjamins, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structure and Function A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories. Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond.
• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027230714
• ISBN 13: 9789027230713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.15 kilograms

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Synopsis

Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages. Whereas Part 1 confines itself largely to the simplex clause, Part 2 moves from the clause towards the discourse and its context. The first three chapters deal with the areas of illocution, information structuring (topic and focus, theme and rheme, given and new information, etc.), and clause combining within complex sentences. Chapter 4 examines approaches to discourse, text and context across the three theories. The fifth chapter deals with the learning of language by both native and non-native speakers, and applications of the theories in stylistics, computational linguistics, translation and contrastive studies, and language pathology. The final chapter assesses the extent to which each theory attains the goals it sets for itself, and then outlines a programme for the development of an integrated approach responding to a range of criteria of descriptive and explanatory adequacy.