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Advances in systemic linguistics : recent theory and practice

Title
Advances in systemic linguistics : recent theory and practice / edited by Martin Davies and Louise Ravelli.
Publication
London ; New York : Pinter, 1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Davies, Martin.
  • Ravelli, Louise.
Description
ix, 258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Open linguistics series
Subject
  • Systemic grammar > Congresses
  • Structural linguistics > Congresses
Note
  • Based on papers given at the 17th International Systemic Congress, held at Stirling in July 1990.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Trust the text : the implications are daunting / John McH. Sinclair -- How do you mean? / M.A.K. Halliday -- Interpreting the textual metafunction / Christian Matthiessen -- Interpersonal meaning in discourse : value orientations / J.L. Lemke -- Transivity/ergativity : the Janus-headed grammar of actions and events / Kristin Davidse -- The place of circumstantials in systemic-functional grammar / William McGregor -- An initial approach to comparatives in a systemic functional grammar / Gordon Tucker -- On some basic problems of functional sentence perspective / Jan Firbas -- Towards an understanding of the notion of theme : an example from Dari / Linda Stump Rashidi -- The notion of technicality in register : a case study from the language of bridge / James D. Benson and William S. Greaves.
  • Splitting the referent : an introduction to narrative enactors / Catherine Emmott -- The uses of passivity : suppressing agency in Nineteen eighty-four / Daniel Kies.
Call Number
JFE 92-6416
ISBN
0086187070 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 25835267
  • 25855615
  • NYPGR25855615-B
Title
Advances in systemic linguistics : recent theory and practice / edited by Martin Davies and Louise Ravelli.
Imprint
London ; New York : Pinter, 1992.
Series
Open linguistics series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Davies, Martin.
Ravelli, Louise.
Research Call Number
JFE 92-6416
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