| Description |
x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24cm |
| Series |
The collected works of M.A.K. Halliday ; v. 2 |
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Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-
Selections ; v. 2
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Collected works of M.A.K. Halliday ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Linguistic Analysis and Textual Meaning -- 1. The linguistic study of literary texts (1964) -- 2. Text as semantic choice in social contexts (1977) -- Pt. 2. Highly Valued Texts (novel, drama, science in poetry, poetry in science) -- 3. Linguistic function and literary style: an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The Inheritors (1971) -- 4. The de-automatization of grammar: from Priestley's An Inspector Calls (1982) -- 5. Poetry as scientific discourse: the nuclear sections of Tennyson's In Memoriam (1987) -- 6. The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse: with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1990) -- Pt. 3. Everyday Texts (written, spoken) -- 7. Some Lexicogrammatical features of the Zero Population Growth text (1992) -- 8. "So you say 'pass' ... thank you three muchly" (1994). App. 1. Transcription of "subtext" -- App. 2. Analysis of "subtext" -- App. 3. 'Dear Friend of ZPG' |
| Summary |
Focusses "on the application of systemic functional grammar to the analysis of texts, both literary and everyday, written and spoken. Through detailed linguistic analyses of specific texts, ranging from the highly valued by such authors as William Golding, J.B. Priestly, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Darwin, to the more everyday, such as a fund-raising letter and part of a doctoral defence, Halliday explores the power of grammar to create meaning, to change our lives for better or worse. Each text is studied, as one would study any kind of language, in terms of the linguistic resources that contribute to the realization of its "meaning potential". The analyses are not only interesting for what they reveal about the texts under investigation, but also instructive about the practice and methods of systemic grammar analysis"--back cover |
| Analysis |
Discourse |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 289-296 |
| Subject |
Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925- Works
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Semiotics.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Discourse analysis, Literary.
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Discourse analysis.
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| Author |
Webster, Jonathan, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2004296146 |
| ISBN |
0826458688 |
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