Text Linguistics - The How and Why of Meaning (Hardcover, New)

Whether prose or poetry, how does a text come to mean what it does? A functional-semantic approach to text analysis, such as is illustrated in this book, offers a revealing look at the resources of language at work in the creation of meaning, and a unique perspective on the text as object of study. This collaborative work between M.A.K. Halliday, the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Jonathan Webster, the editor of Halliday's eleven volume collected works, draws on a considerable body of Halliday's previously unpublished work, including lectures on fundamental concepts in Systemic-Functional Theory, to present a foundational overview suitable to those who are new to the theory and methodology of Systemic Functional Grammar and Rhetorical Structure Theory. Building on this foundation, section two presents the findings from several case studies in text analysis, demonstrating how to conduct detailed functional-semantic analysis of the speeches of Billy Graham, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, Steve Jobs and Susan Rice. This second section will benefit both beginners and those who have already had some background in the study of linguistics.

General

Imprint:	Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	September 2014
Authors:	Jonathan Webster • M.A.K. Halliday
Dimensions:	244 x 169 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	436
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-904768-47-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	1-904768-47-4
Barcode:	9781904768470

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