Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Theoretical preliminaries -- Pt. II. The ideation base. 2. Overview of the general ideational potential. 3. Sequences. 4. Figures. 5. Elements. 6. Grammatical metaphor. 7. Comparison with Chinese -- Pt. III. The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems. 8. Building an ideation base. 9. Using the ideation base in text processing -- Pt. IV. Theoretical and descriptive alternatives. 10. Alternative approaches to meaning. 11. Distortion and transformation. 12. Figures and processes -- Pt. V. Language and the construal of experience. 13. Language as a multifunctional system-&-process. 14. Construting ideational models: consciousness in daily life and in cognitive science. 15. Language and the making of meaning
Analysis
Systematic linguistics
Notes
Originally published: London : Cassell, 1999
Bibliography
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