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Systemic functional linguistics : exploring choice /
"This simulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Bringing a global team of well-estabished and up-and-coming systemic functional linguists, it shows how the different senses of choice as process and as product are interdependent, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, N.Y. :
CAMBRIDGE University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: choice in contemporary systemic functional theory
- What is the concept of choice?
- How does choice contribute to linking language and cognition?
- How is choice constrained by language use?
- How does choice contribute to linking language and social context?
- How can we study choice in text?
- Conclusion
- Part I Choice: Theory and Debate
- 1 Meaning as choice
- Preamble
- 1.1 Choosing to mean
- 1.2 Systems and system networks
- 1.3 Probability and prediction1.4 Not choosing- or choosing not to choose?
- 1.5 How many choice points?
- 1.6 Choice and metafunction
- 1.7 Meaning beyond the core
- 2 The teleological illusion in linguistic �drift�: choice and purpose in semantic evolution
- 2.1 �Choice�: a problem, an opportunity, and a proposal
- 2.2 Background to the problem: �natural� selection and purpose in semiotic behaviour
- 2.3 Contradictory voices in neo-Darwinism
- 2.4 �Choice� and �innovation� in twenty-first-century biology
- 2.5 The renewal of nature through semiotic experience: the teleological illusion2.6 Motivated selection and choice: bridging the lacunae in our depiction of experience
- 3 Choice and language variation: some theoretical reflections
- 3.1 Halliday on choice in language: from the 1960s papers on grammar to the 1990s quantitative studies
- 3.1.1 Language as a networked system of choices and probabilistic grammar
- 3.1.2 Register as resetting of the probabilities
- 3.1.3 Markedness
- 3.1.4 Conditional probabilities
- 3.1.5 System, register and instance
- 3.2 From frequency to probability: Matthiessen�s report3.2.1 Instantiation
- 3.2.2 Probability profiles
- 3.2.3 A discussion of Matthiessen�s findings
- 3.3 Paradigmatic choice remodelled as syntagmatic choice
- 3.3.1 Tucker on choice and phraseology
- 3.3.2 Phraseology and probabilistic grammar
- 3.3.3 A comparative reading of Tucker�s proposal
- 3.4 Conclusions
- 4 Grammatical choice and communicative motivation: a radical systemic approach
- 4.1 Choice as a systemic functional concept
- 4.2 Fawcett on choice
- 4.3 Where do features come from?
- 4.4 Commutation version 2.04.5 The complex content plane of the sign
- 4.5.1 Vagueness
- 4.5.2 Markedness: different degrees of underspecification
- 4.5.3 Non-monadic signs, the complex interrelationship between signs
- 4.5.4 Metafunctional diversity
- 4.5.5 Multifunctionality
- 4.6 Conclusion: towards a more radical systemic approach
- 5 Semantic options and complex functions: a recursive view of choice
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.1.1 Aims
- 5.1.2 Organisation of the chapter
- 5.2 The problem with choice
- 5.3 Choice as a simple term in SFL