Relations and Functions Within and Around Language

by Fries, Peter H.; Cummings, Michael; Lockwood, David; Spruiell, William C.

• ISBN13: 9780826453686
• ISBN10: 0826453686
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional relations. Part I presents essays from a variety of perspectives on the theory of language as functional relations. Part II presents essays which describe an oral text from 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. Currently in linguistics there is a movement towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis. This movement has involved the use of written corpora, spoken corpora and corpora which consist of combinations of spoken and written text. But little detailed discussion of the language of oral texts has been published. Most text analyses address written texts -- often literary works. This book is among the first to integrate the analysis of the language of spoken and written texts.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
PART ONE: THEORY
Relations and Functions within and around Language: The Systemic-Functional Tradition	13	(19)
Michael Gregory
Ideology, Intertextuality and the Communication of Science	32	(24)
J. L. Lemke
Interpersonal Meaning and the Discursive Construction of Action, Attitudes and Values: The Global Modal Program of One Text	56	(61)
Paul J. Thibault
The Flow of Information in a Written English Text	117	(39)
Peter H. Fries
Intrastratal and Interstratal Relations in Language and Their Functions	156	(33)
David G. Lockwood
PART TWO: APPLICATION
Memory and Discourse	189	(36)
Stephen A. Tyler
Highlighting in Stratificational-Cognitive Linguistics	225	(31)
David G. Lockwood
Interpreting Discourse	256	(21)
Sydney Lamb
Prosody and Emotion in a Sample of Real Speech	277	(39)
Wallace Chafe
Phasal Analysis within Communication Linguistics: Two Contrastive Discourses	316	(30)
Michael Gregory
Some Aspects of Coherence in a Conversation	346	(31)
Peter H. Fries
Appendix: Conversation (Interview) between Sue and Kay	377	(12)
Index	389