Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and Uses

✍ Scribed by Eija Ventola (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 516
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 55
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Part I
Discourse strategies and discourse types
Text production and dynamic text semantics
Towards probabilistic interpretations
A functional model of the system of sentence structures
Constraining the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources during text generation: Towards a computational instantiation of register theory
A treatment of raising and control in systemic grammar
The concept of rank in systemic linguistics
Part II
Information flow in English conversation: A new approach to the Given – New distinction
Minimal exchanges in English discourse
The interpenetration of language as code and language as behavior: A description of evaluative statements
The static and dynamic choices of responding: Toward the process of building social reality by the developmentally disordered
First- and second-order registers in education
Part III
Functional theory, scientism, and altruism: A critique of functional linguistics and its applications to writing
Grammar, technocracy, and the noun: Technocratic values and cognitive linguistics
Nominalization in science and humanities: Distilling knowledge and scaffolding text
From clinical report to clinical story: Two ways of writing about a medical case
Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts
Another perspective on coherence and cohesive harmony
Cohesion coherence: Scientific texts
The use of systemic linguistics to describe student summaries at university level
Non-native writing and native revising of scientific articles
Index