Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
10 The differential patterned occurrence of ellipsis in texts varied for contextual mode: Some support for the ‘mode of discourse-textual metafunction’ hook-up?
Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
Ben Clarke [+]
University of Portsmouth
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Ben Clarke is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests include functional descriptions of language and grammar, the relationship between language and semiotic context, and multimodality – particularly the relationship between language and embodied forms of communication.
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This chapter attempts to test the relationship between language and context as it is theorized in systemic functional linguistics.