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Text Linguistics
The How and Why of Meaning
M.A.K. Halliday † [+]
University of Sydney (Emeritus)
Jonathan J. Webster [–]
City University of Hong Kong
Jonathan J. Webster is Professor,
Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Director, The Halliday
Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at the City University
of Hong Kong. He is also the General Editor of the Equinox journal Linguistics and
the Human Sciences and the editor (with Ruqaiya Hasan and Christian
Matthiessen) of the two volume Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional
Perspective (Equinox, 2007).
Whether prose or poetry, how does
a text come to mean what it does? A functional-semantic approach to text
analysis, such as is illustrated in this book, offers a revealing look at the
resources of language at work in the creation of meaning, and a unique
perspective on the text as object of study. Believing the best way to learn about
text linguistics is through the analysis of full texts, the authors include
analyses of texts, both spoken and written, drawn from a variety of genres,
including examples of religious and political discourse. In the first section,
the authors provide an overview suitable to those who are new to the theory and
methodology of Systemic Functional Grammar and Rhetorical Structure Theory.
Building on this foundation, section two presents the findings from several
case studies in text analysis, demonstrating how to conduct indepth
functional-semantic analysis of selected texts. This second section will
benefit both beginners and those who have already had some background in the
study of linguistics. Text Linguistics is the ideal choice for those who are
learning about text linguistics, and functional approaches to language study.
Table of Contents
Part One: A functional approach
Part Three: Case studies in text linguistics
End Matter
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