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Language as behaviour, language as code : a study of academic English /
This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one appro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
1990.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach to the analysis of language in order to test whether something of significance can be said about the typology of texts and discourse. The approach chosen is Systemic Functional Grammar, with its roots in the Prague School of Linguistics and the London School of J.R. Firth, a theory that is particularly. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789027283276 9027283273 1283174219 9781283174213 9786613174215 6613174211 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |