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Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Text and Discursive Context
Paul Bayley (Ed) Donna R. Miller (Ed)
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Hardcover. This volume addresses the increasingly typical nature of text and discourse: 'hybridity'. In an SFL perspective, this means that the cultural and situational contexts that tend to activate meanings and wordings must also be seen as being 'hybrid'. Editor(s): Miller, Donna; Bayley, Paul. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 figures. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 953.
The term 'hybridity' has been around for a long time and, for most of its history of use, has been pressed into the most disparate - and often dubious - services. In recent times it has become a sort of transdisciplinary 'buzz word' and it was about time that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) also raised its voice on the subject. This volume addresses the increasingly typical hybrid nature of text and discourse. In an SFL perspective, this also means that cultural and situational contexts must be seen as being always potentially hybrid or, as Hasan has fittingly put it, 'permeable', ... Read more
The term 'hybridity' has been around for a long time and, for most of its history of use, has been pressed into the most disparate - and often dubious - services. In recent times it has become a sort of transdisciplinary 'buzz word' and it was about time that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) also raised its voice on the subject. This volume addresses the increasingly typical hybrid nature of text and discourse. In an SFL perspective, this also means that cultural and situational contexts must be seen as being always potentially hybrid or, as Hasan has fittingly put it, 'permeable', ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Equinox
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781790649
SKU
V9781781790649
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About Paul Bayley (Ed) Donna R. Miller (Ed)
Donna R. Miller holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna, where she heads the Research Centre for Linguistic-Cultural Studies (CeSLiC). Her research has focused on register analysis in institutional text types, her corpus-assisted investigations exploring the grammar of evaluation in terms of APPRAISAL SYSTEMS. Recently she has ... Read more
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