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System and Corpus - Exploring Connections (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
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System and Corpus - Exploring Connections (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
Series: Functional Linguistics
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This book is the first to combine interests in two currently
popular approaches to language description, both of which are based
on the observation of naturally-occurring, as opposed to invented,
language. Systemic Functional Linguistics is a theory that focuses
on meaning, choice and probability in language and on language as a
social phenomenon. Corpus Linguistics is a practice, rather than a
theory: a corpus is a large collection of texts that are used as
the basis for language description. It is natural that SFL should
turn to corpora as a source of information about grammatical
preference, probability and variety, and some of the papers in this
collection explore this dimension of the interaction between system
and corpus. Conversely, corpus linguists have made generalisations
about language that contextualize but also challenge the theories
of SFL. Some of the papers in the collection expand on this theme.
A concluding paper by M.A.K. Halliday responds to the issues
raised. The book will therefore be of interest to students and
researchers involved in either of these two influential topics in
linguistics.
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