| Description |
ix, 258 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Open linguistics series |
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Open linguistics series.
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| Contents |
Splitting the referent : an introduction to narrative enactors / Catherine Emmott -- The uses of passivity : suppressing agency in Nineteen eighty-four / Daniel Kies |
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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 |
| Analysis |
Semantics |
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Semantics |
| Notes |
"Reports ... derived from papers given at the 17th International Systemic Congress (ISC), held at Stirling in July 1990"--Introd |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Congresses.
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Functionalism (Linguistics)
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Systemic grammar -- Congresses.
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| Author |
Davies, Martin, 1931-
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Ravelli, Louise.
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International Systemic Congress (17th : 1990)
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| LC no. |
92115918 |
| ISBN |
0861870700 |
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