System and Corpus: Exploring Connections (Functional Linguistics) - Hardcover

Thompson, Charis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904768199 ISBN 13: 9781904768197

Publisher: Equinox Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

This book is the first to combine interests in two currently popular approaches to language description, both of which are based on the observation of naturally-occurring as opposed to invented, language. Systemic Functional Linguistics is a theory that focuses on meaning, choice and probability in language and on language as a social phenomenon. Corpus Linguistics is a practice, rather than a theory: a corpus is a large collection of texts that are used as the basis for language description. It is natural that SFL should turn to corpora as a source of information about grammatical preference, probability and variety, and some of the papers in this collection explore this dimension of the interaction between system and corpus. Conversely, corpus linguists have made generalizations about language that contextualize but also challenge the theories of SFL.

About this title

About the Author:

Geoff Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool, UK Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1904768199
• ISBN 13: 9781904768197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Geoff Thompson, Susan Hunston