Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2

Name: Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2
Brand: University of Toronto Press

University of Toronto Press

Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2Author(s): Christian Matthiessen, Kazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia, Diana Slade\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781049800042, 978-1049800042\nSynopsis\nThe second volume of Systemic Functional Linguistics contains Christian [url] Matthiessens papers on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) spanning forty years from 1981 to the present.\nThis updated volume builds on the foundation developed in Volume 1, focusing on theoretically guided modelling of language in computational linguistic systems and on key aspects of the theory such as metafunction, rank (the conception of morphology), indeterminacy, and probability. This volume also includes a treatment of systemic functional metatheory the theory of the nature and applicability of theory. The new chapter written for Volume 2 extends the discussion of the challenge of theorizing language to the challenge of modelling .