Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Linguistics --- Structural linguistics. --- Language and languages --- Linguistique structurale --- Langage et langues --- Usage. --- Usage --- Structural linguistics --- Language and languages - Usage

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

During most of the 20th century, the classical Saussurean distinction between language usage and language structure remained untranscendable in much linguistic theory. The dominant view, propagated in particular by generative grammar, was that there are structural facts and usage facts, and that in principle the former are independent of, and can be described in complete isolation from, the latter. With the appearance of functional-cognitive approaches on the scene, this view has been challenged. The view of structure as usage-based has had two consequences that make time ripe for a focused study of the interaction between usage and structure. Within the generative camp it has inspired a more explicit and precise description of the status of usage. Within the functional-cognitive camp it has blurred the status of structure. Perhaps because functionalists and cognitivists have had to position themselves in relation to generative grammar, some have emphasized the role of usage facts to the extent that structure is largely ignored. Accounts of language usage, language acquisition and language change are impossible without an assumption about what it is that is being used, acquired, or subjected to change. And more moderate functionalists and cognitive functionalists recognize both structural facts and usage facts as genuine facts central to the understanding of language. Still, the linguistic literature that shares this position does not abound with explicit, precise characterizations of the relationship between usage and structure. The present volume brings together scholars from different theoretical positions to address theoretical and methodological aspects of the relation between language usage and structure. The contributors differ with respect to how they conceive of this relation and, more basically, with respect to how they conceive of linguistic structure. What they have in common, however, is that they recognize structure and usage as non-reducible linguistic phenomena and take seriously the challenge to describe the relation between them.

Structural linguistics. --- Language and languages --- Linguistic usage --- Usage, Linguistic --- Linguistics --- Usage. --- Grammars --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Generative Linguistics.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A discourse analysis that is not based on grammar is likely to end up as a running commentary on a text, whereas a grammar-based one tends to treat text as a finished product rather than an on-going process. This book offers an approach to discourse analysis that is both grammar-based and oriented towards text as process. It proposes a model called TEXT TYPE within the framework of Hallidayan systemic-functional linguistics, which views grammatical choices in a text not as elements that combine to form a clause structure, but as semantic features that link successive clauses into an unfoldin

English language --- Discourse analysis. --- Systemic grammar. --- Neo-Firthian linguistics --- Scale-and-category grammar --- System-structure grammar --- Systemic linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Structural linguistics --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Study and teaching --- Chinese speakers. --- Germanic languages

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Discourse analysis --- English language --- Systemic grammar --- Neo-Firthian linguistics --- Scale-and-category grammar --- System-structure grammar --- Systemic linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Structural linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Study and teaching&delete& --- Chinese speakers --- Discourse analysis. --- Systemic grammar. --- Study and teaching --- Chinese speakers.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will interest any linguist who takes a functional approach to understanding language.Part 1 summarizes the major developments in the forty years of SFL's history, including alternative approaches within Halliday's own writings and the emergence of the "Cardiff Grammar" as an alternative to the "Sydney Gr

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Systemic grammar. --- Neo-Firthian linguistics --- Scale-and-category grammar --- System-structure grammar --- Systemic linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Structural linguistics --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Systemic grammar --- Syntaxe --- Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) --- Grammaire systémique --- Functionalism (Linguistics). --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax