PIPPIN PUBLISHING

MAKING SENSE OF TEXT: THE CONTEXT-TEXT RELATIONSHIP

ISBN: 0-646-24144-3    View Graphical Site    Go Back

Making Sense of Text is the second workbook in the innovative, easy-to-follow, practical "Making Sense of Language" series, which introduces students and teachers to systemic-functional grammar. This volume explores whole texts with reference to lexicogrammar, and how genre, field, tenor, mode and ideology contribute to our understanding of spoken and written texts. Readers will learn how to apply the grammar to contrasting texts through the author's analysis of a range of authentic material from a variety of contexts. Although this title builds on Making Sense of Functional Grammar, which dealt with clause-level grammar, readers new to this kind of grammatical explanation can still use this volume as an introduction to systemic-functional grammar.

Paperback  8.5" x 11"

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Contextual Appropriateness and Linguistic Integrity
          Introduction
          Text and Sociocultural Appropriateness
          Linguistic Integrity of Text
          Systemic Functional Linguistics and Text Analysis

Chapter 2 Different Genres, Different Meaning
          Introduction
          Narrative and Explanation
          Hortatory and Analytical Exposition

Chapter 3 Field, Lexis and Uncommonsense
          Introduction
          Field and Lexis
          Field and the Organisation of Knowledge
          Commonsense and Uncommonsense Knowledge

Chapter 4 Interpersonal Meanings
          Introduction
          Contact
          Status
          Affect
          Impersonality: Objectivity and Subjectivity

Chapter 5 Mode and Textual Meaning
          Introduction
          Channel, Role and Medium
          Textual Meanings

Chapter 6 Ideology
          Introduction
          Register

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Index