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Eggins, Suzanne – 1994
The introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach that views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts and asks both how…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, English, Grammar
Ventola, Eija, Ed. – 1991
Articles included in this compilation represent functional approaches to literary analysis. Most of these papers were presented at the Sixteenth International Systemics Congress held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1989. The aim of the congress was to establish dialogue between various functional approaches to the theoretical study of language, to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Literary Genres