Language, Context, and Text
| Author | : Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday |
| Publisher | : Deakin University Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
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Text and Context in Functional Linguistics
| Author | : Mohsen Ghadessy |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027236747 |
This text aims to examine the nature of text and context, using theoretical models based in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
Language, Text and Context
| Author | : Michael Toolan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2016-11-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 131540236X |
First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory, analysis, text and context by challenging the myth that stylistics entails a fundamental separation of text from context, linguistic description from descriptive interpretation, or language from situation. The essays cover a historically diverse set of texts, from Puttenham to Colemanballs, and a number of language-sensitive topics such as post-modernism, irony, newspaper representations, gender and narrative.
Text, Context, Pretext
| Author | : H. G. Widdowson |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0470758279 |
Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined. Written by a leading researcher in the field Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed
Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions
| Author | : Pascal Hohaus |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2020-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027260524 |
Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.
Exploring the Language of Drama
| Author | : Jonathan Culpeper |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2002-01-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134774303 |
Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters: open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse focus on the notion of speech as action there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment
Text, Role and Context
| Author | : Ann M. Johns |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1997-06-13 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780521561389 |
This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. It offers a brief history of literacy theories and argues for "socioliterate" approaches to teaching and learning in which texts are viewed as primarily socially constructed. Central to socioliteracy, the concepts "genre" and "discourse community," are presented in detail. The author argues for roles for literacy practitioners in which they and their students conduct research and are involved in joint pedagogical endeavors. The final chapters are devoted to outlining how the views presented can be applied to a variety of classroom texts. Core curricular design principles are outlined, and three types of portfolio-based academic literacy classrooms are described.
Context in the System and Process of Language
| Author | : Ruqaiya Hasan |
| Publisher | : Equinox |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2012-11-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781904768395 |
The concept "context of situation" introduced by Malinowski some eighty years ago has now become an essential element of the vocabulary of any linguistic theory whose aim is to reveal the nature of language. With the abandonment of the spurious distinction between competence and performance, the process of language, i.e., language use, has claimed its rightful place in the study of language. The chapters of this book focus on the relations of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language operative in some recognizable social context. It is argued that context is not simply a backdrop for the occurrence of words; rather, it is an active element which on the one hand plays a crucial role in the progression of human discourse and on the other enters into and shapes the very nature of language as process and as system, furnishing the foundation for functionality in language. Acting as the interface between language and society, context analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining and changing human relationships.
Contexts in Translating
| Author | : Eugene A. Nida |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2002-11-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027297045 |
Contexts in Translating is designed to help translators understand the varieties of contexts and their importance for understanding a text and reproducing the meaning in another language. The contexts include the historical setting of writing a text, the cultural components that make a text unique, the types of audiences for which the translation is intended, and the most efficient and effective ways of producing a satisfactory representation of the source-language text. The structural levels of language are described, and the principal features of text organization are also explained. In addition, the main features of various books on translation are outlined, and a chapter on basic theories of translation is followed by a selective bibliography.
