Product Description: Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems – is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychological. The sign systems that we use for interaction with other living beings determine our potential for thought and social action, and language is central among them...read more

Product Description: Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems – is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychological. The sign systems that we use for interaction with other living beings determine our potential for thought and social action, and language is central among them...read more

Product Description: The central concept in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is that of choice between meanings - these being realized in structures. The important question that forms the starting point for this book addresses is: How do we, as users of language, choose between the features in the system networks? As the book shows, an adequate answer to this question presupposes an adequate overall model - or architecture - of language and its use...read more

Product Description: This short book is two books in one. First, it is a genuinely introductory introduction to the main concepts of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) for the 21st century. Drawing on recent research, it focuses on the structure of the clause in English, bringing out clearly (i) the 'multifunctional' nature of language, and (ii) the way in which structures are the result of 'choices between meanings'...read more

Product Description: This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory...read more

Product Description: An illustration of the concept that theories develop most creatively in the context of their application, with reference to main developments in the field in recent years. This volume covers many aspects of applied systemic linguistics including language teaching, language and pathology, literary stylistics, socio-linguistic variation, modelling the production and understanding of language in computers, child development and the study of ideologically significant texts such as court proceedings...read more