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A Functional Discourse Grammar for English (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,587
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A Functional Discourse Grammar for English (Hardcover): Evelien Keizer

A Functional Discourse Grammar for English (Hardcover)

Evelien Keizer

Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

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This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmatics down to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels. The many exercises, categorized according to degree of difficulty, ensure that students are challenged to use the theory in a creative manner, and invite them to test and evaluate the theory by applying it to the new data in various linguistic contexts. Evelien Keizer uses examples from a variety of sources to demonstrate how the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar can be used to analyse and explain the most important functional and formal features of present-day English. The book also contains examples from a wide variety of other typologically diverse languages, making it attractive not only to students of English linguistics but to anyone interested in linguistic theory more generally.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
Release date: 2015
Authors: Evelien Keizer (Professor of English Language and Linguistics)
Dimensions: 250 x 181 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957186-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-957186-4
Barcode: 9780199571864

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