num_pages: 126
description: This study deals with the linguistic study of texts as a way of understanding how language functions in its immensely varied range of social contexts. The authors adopt a functional approach to language, in which the different registers or functional varieties of a language are explained byreference to the different contexts in which they occur. Their analysis reveals how, on the one hand, each text is unique, while on the other, the way a text is organized and the kinds of coherence it displays are closely related to the place and the value that it has in its social and culturalenvironment.
language: English
title: Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective
titlecomplete: Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (Language Education)
genres: Linguistics, Semiotics
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Oxford University Press