About the Book
This volume develops a functional theory of language which specifies the notion of "register" (the analysis of the linguistic foundations of language), in terms of contextual and linguistic features. Moving beyond the limits of much of today's theory, it develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between text, context and both the function and form of language. A primary concern is to expand current perceptions of functional linguistics and to consider how applications of this theory might be made more effective in communicative language-teaching practices. The notes and draft chapters of this book have been edited by Professor David Birch.
Table of Contents:
Register and genre, context, register, genre, functional theory, applied linguisitics, social semiotics, register or genre?, cultural theory; context, levels of context, context of culture, context of situation, function, meaning; field tenor and mode, modelling context, field, tenor, mode, medium; language medium, metafunctions, orality and literacy, orders of meaning, proficiency, cline of register, power, literariness, communication strategies, linguistic realization; linguistic realization, function and form, development processes, levels of context, iconicity, abstraction - hierarchization, generlaization - lexicalization, realities and grammars, metaphor; hierarchicization, oral and literate cultures, syntachization, casuality, hierarchized structures, clauses, complexity, intricacy; lexicalization, generalization, the lexicon, process, tense, difference, nominality, modification, technicalization, lexical selection, coreness, non-finite structures, cline of lexicalization, decontextualization; theme and information structure, implicitness/explicitness, cohesion, frames, theme-rheme, prominence, topic choice, global topics, thematic progression, rhetorical structure, given-new, topic availability, presuppositionality.
