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A Functional Discourse Grammar for English (Hardcover)
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A Functional Discourse Grammar for English (Hardcover)
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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