A Functional Discourse Grammar for English Paperback / softback
by Evelien (Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Professor of English Language and Li Keizer
Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological.
The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmatics down to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels.
The many exercises, categorized according to degree of difficulty, ensure that students are challenged to use the theory in a creative manner, and invite them to test and evaluate the theory by applying it to the new data in various linguistic contexts. Evelien Keizer uses examples from a variety of sources to demonstrate how the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar can be used to analyse and explain the most important functional and formal features of present-day English.
The book also contains examples from a wide variety of other typologically diverse languages, making it attractive not only to students of English linguistics but to anyone interested in linguistic theory more generally.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/01/2015
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- ISBN:9780199571871
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:356 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/01/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199571871
