Systemic Functional Linguistics Exploring Choice 1st Edition by Lise Fontaine ISBN 1107595355 978-1107595354

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ISBN 10:1107595355

ISBN 13:978-1107595354

Author:Lise Fontaine 

This stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics. Bringing together a global team of well-established and up-and-coming systemic functional linguists, it shows how the different senses of choice as process and as product are interdependent, and how they operate at all levels of language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it covers a range of linguistic viewpoints, informed by evolutionary theory, psychology, sociology and neuroscience, to produce a complex but unifying account of the issues. This book offers a critical examination of choice and is ideal for students and researchers working in all areas of functional linguistics as well as cognitive linguistics, second-language acquisition, neurolinguistics and sociolinguistics.

Table of contents: 

Part I. Choice: Theory and Debate:
1. Meaning as choice M. A. K. Halliday
2. The teleological illusion in linguistic ‘drift’: choice and purpose in semantic evolution David G. Butt, Alison Moore and Kathryn Tuckwell
3. Choice and language variation: some theoretical reflections Maria Freddi
4. Grammatical choice and communicative motivation: a radical systemic approach Carl Bache
5. Semantic options and complex functions: a recursive view of choice Lise Fontaine
6. Choice and choosing in systemic functional grammar: what is it and how is it done? Robin P. Fawcet
Part II. Cognitive and Neurolinguistic Views on Choice:
7. Systemic networks, relational networks, and choice Sydney Lamb
8. The twin paradoxes of unconscious choices and unintentional agents: what neurosciences say about choice and agency in action and language Elissa Asp
9. A neurocognitive interpretation of systemic functional choice José María Gil
Part III. Linguistic Constraints on Choice:
10. There-constructions as a choice for coherence in the recent history of English Ana Elina Martínez-Insua
11. Picking an argument: politicians’ choice of persuasive strategies Geoff Thompson
12. A dynamic view of choice in writing: composition as text evolution Michael O’Donnell
Part IV. Cultural and Contextual Constraints on Choice:
13. Choice, system, realization: describing language as meaning potential Ruqaiya Hasan
14. ‘Choice’ in relation to context: a diachronic perspective on cultural valeur Claire Urbach
15. Material action as choice in field Wendy L. Bowcher
16. ‘I’ll manage the context’: context, environment and the potential for institutional change Tom Bartlett
17. Towards a study of the differences between formal written English and informal spoken English Margaret Berry
18. Genre-driven constraints on semantic choice Víctor M. Castel
Part V. Interpreting Choice:
19. Choices in analyzing choice: methods and techniques for register analysis Elke Teich
20. ‘Register-idiosyncratic’ evaluative choice in congressional debate: a corpus-assisted comparative study Donna Miller and Jane Johnson
21. Not exactly black letter law: emergent choices and textual symbolic design in Athenian legal-political oratory Astika Kappagoda
22. Interlanguage lexicogrammatical fossilization or not? That’s an SFL-related question from the viewpoint of choice Pedro Henrique Lima Praxedes Filho.

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