Meaningful Arrangement: Exploring the Syntactic Description of Texts (Functional Linguistics) - Softcover

McDonald, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845531485 ISBN 13: 9781845531485

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This book takes apart and problematises the whole process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. It brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation to each other. Part 1, Processing the text, concentrates on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis. Since the data needs to be mediated through the processing of the text, the nature of that processing and its effects on subsequent analysis need to be made explicit. Part 2, Analysing the clause, introduces the relevant syntactic phenomena and the sorts of concepts normally used to explain them. It shows how many of the assumptions of traditional syntactic analysis derive from the languages which form the basis of the European tradition, and that different languages require the so-called basic categories of syntactic analysis to be rethought. Part 3, Theorising syntax, sketches the range of syntactic theories available for the consumer. It gives a sense of developments in the field over the last 50 years not just in terms of the usual schools but by picking up on concepts such as the key complementarity between syntagmatic and paradigmatic to characterise the emphases and biases of different theories.

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Edward McDonald is Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Auckland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845531485
• ISBN 13: 9781845531485
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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