Systemic functional perspectives of Japanese
Subtitle: descriptions and applications
By: edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson and William Armour.
Contributors: Thomson, Elizabeth A. 1961-; Armour, William.
Series: Functional linguistics
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781845530532
Subjects: Japanese language -- Grammar; Systemic grammar; Japanese language -- Data processing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Systemic functional theory: description and application / Elizabeth Tomson and William Armour; title: Part I: Descriptions; title: How to argue in Japanese: a systemic functional interpretation of the logico-semantic relations in Japanese exposition / Motoki Sano and Elizabeth Thomson; title: Description of mood in Japanese: examining mood types in a selected set of texts / Nagisa Fukui; title: The system of theme in Japanese / Elizabeth Thomson; title: Classifying natural phenomena through language: lexicogrammatical resources for constructing taxonomies in Japanese biology textbooks; title: Chie Hayakawa; title: Nominalisation and nouniness as meaning strategies in Japanese political manifestos; title: Kinuko Suto and Christopher Barnard; title: Part II: Applications; title: Learning how to mean in Japanese as an additional language; title: William Armour and Reiko Furuya; title: Modelling writing: Using the genre approach in the Japanese as a foreign language classroom / Yuko Ramzan and Elizabeth Thomson; title: A computational model of language in context and its application to the understanding of Japanese text / Noriko Ito and Toru Sugimoto; title: The components and structure of the context base, a database for computer text generation; title: Yusuke Takahashi, Ichiro Kobayashi, and Michiaki Iwazume .