14.2240, Books: Functional/Systemic Ling: Butler

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Date:  Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:34:38 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Structure and Function Part 2: Butler

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Date:  Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:34:38 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Structure and Function Part 2: Butler

Title: Structure and Function - A Guide to Three Major
       Structural-Functional Theories
Subtitle: Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 64

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl

Book URL:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS_64
Availability: Available

Author: Christopher S. Butler, University of Wales, Swansea

Hardback: ISBN: 1588113590, Pages: xiv, 579 pp., Price: USD 140.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230722, Pages: xiv, 579 pp., Price: EUR 140.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1588113590, Pages: xiv, 579 pp., Price: USD 69.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9027230722, Pages: xiv, 579 pp., Price: EUR 70.00

Abstract:

Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and
comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional
Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar,
illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and
other languages. Whereas Part 1 confines itself largely to the simplex
clause, Part 2 moves from the clause towards the discourse and its
context. The first three chapters deal with the areas of illocution,
information structuring (topic and focus, theme and rheme, given and
new information, etc.), and clause combining within complex
sentences. Chapter 4 examines approaches to discourse, text and
context across the three theories. The fifth chapter deals with the
learning of language by both native and non-native speakers, and
applications of the theories in stylistics, computational linguistics,
translation and contrastive studies, and language pathology. The final
chapter assesses the extent to which each theory attains the goals it
sets for itself, and then outlines a programme for the development of
an integrated approach responding to a range of criteria of
descriptive and explanatory adequacy.

Table of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Preface  xi
1. Illocution and related phenomena  1-60
2. Information structure  61-182
3. Complex sentences  183-301
4. Discourse, text and context  303-398
5. Learning and applying the grammar  399-449
6. Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic
   Functional Grammar: A final assessment and some pointers to the
   future 451-500
References  501-536
Name index  537-543
Language index  545-547
Subject index  549-576

Lingfield(s):   Functional & Systemic Ling (Linguistic Theories)
		Linguistic Theories

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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