30.576, Books: Describing Language: Webster, Cloran (eds.), Hasan

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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:26:24
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Describing Language: Webster, Cloran (eds.), Hasan

 


Title: Describing Language 
Subtitle: Form and Function 
Series Title: The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan, Volume 5  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/describing-language-form-function-collected-works-ruqaiya-hasan-vol-5-ruqaiya-hasan-edited-jonathan-j-webster/ 


Author: Ruqaiya Hasan
Editor: Johnathan Webster
Editor: Carmel Cloran

Electronic: ISBN:  9781781798034 Pages: 386 Price: ----   Comment: see website
Hardback: ISBN:  9781904768418 Pages: 386 Price: U.S. $ 100.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781904768425 Pages: 386 Price: U.S. $ 40.00


Abstract:

How does one’s grammar depend on one’s conception of language? In systemic
functional linguistics, language is viewed as a meaning potential, thus
embracing the view, now supported by contemporary theories of the evolution of
human consciousness, that language has evolved in the living of life in
society. 

Using the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics, the
chapters of this book explore the nature of language, the relations of meaning
and society, of form and meaning, and of grammar and lexis. Halliday has
referred to the level of lexicogrammar as the powerhouse of language: this is
where the resource for creating linguistic meaning resides. But language as
resource cannot be adequately described as a set of syntagmatic structures;
instead, the primary focus must be on the paradigmatic axis, which after all
furnishes the principle for the actualisation of syntagms. Accordingly,
aspects of Urdu and English semantics, grammar and lexis are presented here in
terms of systemic options, realised as structures.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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