A Systemic Functional Grammar of French - From Grammar to Discourse

Zusatztext "Readers unfamiliar with SF grammar's functional framework and its technical terminology will find this text challenging indeed. Furthermore, although Caffarel does comment about linguistic typology on occasion, there is little attempt to contrast French with other languages." -Carl S. Blyth, MLJ Reviews, (Modern Language Journal) , Vol. 92 No. 3, 2008 Informationen zum Autor Dr Alice Caffarel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies at the University of Sydney. Vorwort Presenting an analysis of French grammar using the Hallidayan approach, this title looks at what constitutes language, and how it is used in life. Zusammenfassung Presenting an analysis of French grammar using the Hallidayan approach, this title looks at what constitutes language, and how it is used in life. This grammar has been developed as a resource for discourse analysis, and for understanding how French grammar makes meaning in different textual and contextual environments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by M A K Halliday Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Systemic Functional Theory as a Metalanguage for Description 2. The Grammar of Ideation 1: Logical Metafunction 3. The Grammar of Ideation 2: Experiential Metafunction 4. The Grammar of Negotiation: Interpersonal Metafunction 5. The 'Enabling' Grammar: Textual Metafunction Glossary

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• Authors: Alice Caffarel, CAFFAREL ALICE, Alice Caffarel-Cayron, Caffarel-Cayron Alice
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2006
• EAN: 9780826466327
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-6632-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; French, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology