Systemic Functional Grammar
A Text-Based Description of English, Spanish and Chinese
JR Martin author Pin Wang author Beatriz Quiroz author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:8th Jun '23
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By comparing English, Spanish and Chinese, this book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics can address issues in language description.
For the first time, this book provides a usage-based model to for describing the grammar of languages, by applying Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. Advancing SFL theory, it is essential reading for researchers and students of grammar within usage-based frameworks.Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics – namely typology and universals. It concentrates in particular on argumentation, carefully explaining how descriptions of nominal group, verbal group and clause systems and structures are motivated, and draws on examples from key texts which display a full range of ideational, interpersonal and textual grammar resources. By working across three world languages from a text-based perspective, and demonstrating how grammar descriptions can be developed and improved, the book establishes the foundations for a groundbreaking functional approach to language typology.
ISBN: 9781009285001
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
Weight: 878g
468 pages