ENGLISH

Relations and Functions Within and Around Language

By David Lockwood , William Spruiell , Peter Fries , Michael Cummings

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2005
ISBN
0826478751, 9780826478757, 0826453686, 0826453694
Open Library ID
OL9780166M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19455582 bytes)
Series
Open linguistics series
Pages
410\410
Library
ebook3000.com
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

This book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional relations. The essays in Part I present several perspectives on the theory of language as functional relations. The essays in Part II discuss an oral text using a variety of functional perspectives. All of the essays are by linguists interested in oral and written texts who have achieved international recognition in their fields. Illustrated in this book are cognitive, social construction, social praxis and anthropological approaches to the description of text. Currently in linguistics there is a movement towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis. This movement has involved the use of written corpora, spoken corpora and corpora which consist of combinations of spoken and written text. But little detailed discussion of the language of a single oral text from multiple perspectives has been published. Most text analyzes address written texts - often literary works. This book is among the first to integrate the analysis of the language of spoken and written texts.

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