【2014新书】A Functional Discourse Grammar for English
Book 图书名称:A Functional Discourse Grammar for English (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)
Author 作者:Evelien Keizer
Publisher 出版社:Oxford University Press
Page 页数:320
Publishing Date 出版时间:2015
Language 语言:English
Size 大小:1 MB
Format 格式:pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0199571864, 9780199571864
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmatics down to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels. The many exercises, categorized according to degree of difficulty, ensure that students are challenged to use the theory in a creative manner, and invite them to test and evaluate the theory by applying it to the new data in various linguistic contexts.
Evelien Keizer uses examples from a variety of sources to demonstrate how the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar can be used to analyse and explain the most important functional and formal features of present-day English. The book also contains examples from a wide variety of other typologically diverse languages, making it attractive not only to students of English linguistics but to anyone interested in linguistic theory more generally.