Fries Peter H., Cummings Michael, Lockwood David, Spruiell William (eds.) Relations and Functions Within and Around Language

Continuum, 2005. — 410 p. — (Open Linguistics Series). — ISBN 0826478751, 9780826478757, 0826453686, 0826453694.This book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional relations. The essays in Part I present several perspectives on the theory of language as functional relations. The essays in Part II discuss an oral text using a variety of functional perspectives. All of the essays are by linguists interested in oral and written texts who have achieved international recognition in their fields. Illustrated in this book are cognitive, social construction, social praxis and anthropological approaches to the description of text. Currently in linguistics there is a movement towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis. This movement has involved the use of written corpora, spoken corpora and corpora which consist of combinations of spoken and written text. But little detailed discussion of the language of a single oral text from multiple perspectives has been published. Most text analyzes address written texts - often literary works. This book is among the first to integrate the analysis of the language of spoken and written texts.Theory
Relations and Functions within and around Language: The Systemic-Functional Tradition. Michael Gregory
Ideology, Intertextuality and the Communication of Science. J. L. Lemke
Interpersonal Meaning and the Discursive Construction of Action, Attitudes and Values: The Global Modal Program of One Text. Paul J. Thibault
The Flow of Information in a Written English Text. Peter H. Fries
Intrastratal and Interstratal Relations in Language and Their Functions. David G. Lockwood
Application
Memory and Discourse. Stephen A. Tyler
Highlighting in Stratificational-Cognitive Linguistics. David G. Lockwood
Interpreting Discourse. Sydney Lamb
Prosody and Emotion in a Sample of Real Speech. Wallace Chafe
Phasal Analysis within Communication Linguistics: Two Contrastive Discourses. Michael Gregory
Some Aspects of Coherence in a Conversation. Peter H. Fries
Appendix: Conversation (Interview) between Sue and Kay