Describing Language: Form and FunctionThe Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 5
Ruqaiya Hasan
Edited by: Jonathan J. Webster
Series: Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Hardback Price £60.00/$110.00 Paperback Price £27.50/$47.50 |    |
Description
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.
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.
Contents
Introduction: functionality in language: four European scholars
Theory:
1. Syntax and semantics
2. What kind of resource is language?
3. Directions from structuralism
4. Semantic networks: a tool for the analysis of meaning
Descriptions:
5. Lending and borrowing: from grammar to lexis
6. The grammarian's dream: lexis as most delicate grammar
7. The verb 'be' in Urdu
8. Ways of saying: ways of meaning
9. English process, English tense: foreign learner, foreign teacher
10. Verbs of saying: perspective from semiotic mediation
11. English mood: a systemic description
12. On teh realization relation of semantics and lexicogrammar: the case of negation in English
13. Reflections on subject and theme
14. Some clause types in Urdu: a tentative analysis
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1904768415 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781904768418 |
| Price (Hardback) | £60.00/$110.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1904768423 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781904768425 |
| Price (Paperback) | £27.50/$47.50 |
| Publication Date | June 2012 |
| Pages | 480 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Readership | academics, researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students |
| Book Status | Not yet published |
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