Meaning in Context (eBook, PDF)

Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies
Redaktion: Webster, Jonathan J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Meaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. The chapters use systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues including corpus linguistics, multimodality, language technology, world Englishes and language evolution.

This forward-thinking volume will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and systemic functional linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441156440
• Artikelnr.: 40774082

Autorenporträt

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Centre in Context, Jonathan J. Webster
Opening Address: Working with Meaning: Towards an Appliable Linguistics, M.
A. K. Halliday
1. Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Notion of Linguistic Structure:
Unanswered Questions, New Possibilities, John A. Bateman
2. The Robustness of Realizational Systems, David G. Butt
3. A Study of Topical Theme in Chinese: An SFL Perspective, Fang Yan
4. How is Meaning Construed Multimodally? A Case Study of a PowerPoint
Presentation Contest, Hu Zhuanglin and Dong Jia
5. A Systemic Functional Approach to Code-switching Studies: Some
Chinese-English Examples, Huang Guowen and Wang Jin
6. Multilingual Studies as a Multi-dimensional Space of Interconnected
Language Studies, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, Kazuhiro Teruya and Wu
Canzhong
7. The Scamseek Project - Using Systemic Functional Grammar for Text
Categorization, Jon Patrick
8. Explicitation: Towards an Empirical and Corpus-based Methodology, Erich
Steiner
9. Creativity in English Globalized: Signifiers and Their Signifieds, Edwin
Thumboo
10. Nominalization, Verbalization and Grammatical Metaphor, Zhu Yongsheng