Discourse in society
Subtitle: systemic functional perspectives : meaning and choice in language : studies for Michael Halliday
By: edited by Peter H. Fries, Michael Gregory.
Contributors: Fries, Peter Howard.; Gregory, Michael.; Halliday, M. A. K.
Series: Advances in discourse processes -- vol.L / Roy O. Freedle; Advances in discourse processes -- vol.L.
Publisher: Ablex
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Norwood, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Systemic grammar.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-296) and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Contents, Generic and register qualities of texts and their realization / Eija Ventola; value: Opinion texts in conversation / Barbara M. Horvath, Suzanne Eggins; value: Patterns of information in initial position in English / Peter H. Fries; value: Generic expectancies and discoursal surprises , John Donne's The good morrow / Michael Gregory; value: Intertextuality and text semantics / Jay L. Lemke; value: The social production of language , history and structures of domination / Gunther Kress; value: Knowledge and laughter , an approach to a socio-cognitive linguistics / Elissa D. Asp; value: A systemic-functional semiotics of art / Michael O'Toole; value: The conception of context in text / Ruqaiya Hasan.