Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice

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Cambridge University Press, 12/19/2013EAN 9781107036963, ISBN10: 1107036968Hardcover, 552 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cmLanguage: EnglishOriginally published in EnglishThis stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics. Bringing together a global team of well-established and up-and-coming systemic functional linguists, it shows how the different senses of choice as process and as product are interdependent, and how they operate at all levels of language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it covers a range of linguistic viewpoints, informed by evolutionary theory, psychology, sociology and neuroscience, to produce a complex but unifying account of the issues. This book offers a critical examination of choice and is ideal for students and researchers working in all areas of functional linguistics as well as cognitive linguistics, second-language acquisition, neurolinguistics and sociolinguistics.Introductionchoice in contemporary systemic functional theory Lise FontainePart I. ChoiceTheory and Debate1. Meaning as choice M. A. K. Halliday2. The teleological illusion in linguistic 'drift'choice and purpose in semantic evolution David G. Butt, Alison Moore and Kathryn Tuckwell3. Choice and language variationsome theoretical reflections Maria Freddi4. Grammatical choice and communicative motivationa radical systemic approach Carl Bache5. Semantic options and complex functionsa recursive view of choice Lise Fontaine6. Choice and choosing in systemic functional grammarwhat is it and how is it done? Robin P. FawcetPart II. Cognitive and Neurolinguistic Views on Choice7. Systemic networks, relational networks, and choice Sydney Lamb8. The twin paradoxes of unconscious choices and unintentional agentswhat neurosciences say about choice and agency in action and language Elissa Asp9. A neurocognitive interpretation of systemic functional choice José María GilPart III. Linguistic Constraints on Choice10. There-constructions as a choice for coherence in the recent history of English Ana Elina Martínez-Insua11. Picking an argumentpoliticians' choice of persuasive strategies Geoff Thompson12. A dynamic view of choice in writingcomposition as text evolution Michael O'DonnellPart IV. Cultural and Contextual Constraints on Choice13. Choice, system, realizationdescribing language as meaning potential Ruqaiya Hasan14. 'Choice' in relation to contexta diachronic perspective on cultural valeur Claire Urbach15. Material action as choice in field Wendy L. Bowcher16. 'I'll manage the context'context, environment and the potential for institutional change Tom Bartlett17. Towards a study of the differences between formal written English and informal spoken English Margaret Berry18. Genre-driven constraints on semantic choice Víctor M. CastelPart V. Interpreting Choice19. Choices in analyzing choicemethods and techniques for register analysis Elke Teich20. 'Register-idiosyncratic' evaluative choice in congressional debatea corpus-assisted comparative study Donna Miller and Jane Johnson21. Not exactly black letter lawemergent choices and textual symbolic design in Athenian legal-political oratory Astika Kappagoda22. Interlanguage lexicogrammatical fossilization or not? That's an SFL-related question from the viewpoint of choice Pedro Henrique Lima Praxedes Filho. Show more