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Pages: 516
Authors: Christopher Butler
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (gra
The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share tw
Functional Discourse Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 528
Authors: Kees Hengeveld
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary
The Language of Schooling
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Mary J. Schleppegrell
Categories: Education
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This book builds on current sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic studies of language in school, but adds a new dimension--the framework of functional linguist
On Subject and Theme
Language: en
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Authors: Ruqaiya Hasan
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-11-23 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has tradition