Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Analysing Scientific Discourse from A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective: A Framework for Exploring Knowledge Building in Biology
1st Edition
By Jing Hao
December 13, 2021
This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The description reveals co-textual patterns of language features, their expressions through grammatical resources, as well as their ...
Systemic Functional Language Description: Making Meaning Matter
1st Edition
Edited
By J.R. Martin, Y.J. Doran, Giacomo Figueredo
September 30, 2021
This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars, the book demonstrates...
Casting a Minimalist Eye on Adjuncts
1st Edition
By Stefanie Bode
August 02, 2021
This book offers a comprehensive account of adjuncts in generative grammar, seeking to reconcile the differing ways in which they have been treated in the past by proposing a method of analysis grounded in simplification based on Simplest Merge. The volume provides an up-to-date review of the ...
Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech: Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
1st Edition
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By Magdalena Wrembel, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, Piotr Gąsiorowski
June 30, 2021
This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech. //The book features concise contributions from both established and ...
Externalization: Phonological Interpretations of Syntactic Objects
1st Edition
By Yoshihito Dobashi
June 30, 2021
This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories. Conceptual as well as empirical questions are addressed, concerning how syntactic objects are mapped to the ...
Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
1st Edition
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By Bert Peeters
June 30, 2021
All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn’t mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body ...
Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study
1st Edition
By Eden Sum-hung Li, Percy Luen-tim Lui, Andy Ka-chun Fung
June 30, 2021
Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study is the first book which takes a comprehensive systemic functional perspective on political discourse to provide a complete, integrated, exhaustive, systemic and functional description and analysis. Based on the political ...
Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages: Insights from the Margins
1st Edition
By Emily Manetta
March 31, 2021
This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly. After first defining what ...
Time Series Analysis of Discourse: Method and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Dennis Tay
December 18, 2020
This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstrate its potential to complement qualitative approaches in discourse analysis research. The book begins by discussing how time has previously been ...
Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics
1st Edition
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By Akila Sellami-Baklouti, Lise Fontaine
August 14, 2020
This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language. ...
The Language of Pop Culture
1st Edition
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By Valentin Werner
August 14, 2020
This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks. The book features ...
Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language
1st Edition
By Michele Prandi
July 12, 2019
This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can ...