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Systemic Functional Grammar: A Text-Based Description of English, Spanish and Chinese

By J.R. Martin , Pin Wang , Beatriz Quiroz

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
1009285009, 9781009285001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12012468 bytes)
Pages
478\479
Time added
2023-06-21 21:47:31

Description

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics – namely typology and universals. It concentrates in particular on argumentation, carefully explaining how descriptions of nominal group, verbal group and clause systems and structures are motivated, and draws on examples from key texts which display a full range of ideational, interpersonal and textual grammar resources. By working across three world languages from a text-based perspective, and demonstrating how grammar descriptions can be developed and improved, the book establishes the foundations for a groundbreaking functional approach to language typology.

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