English discourse: Systems and structures

Author: (Australia) Martin (Martin/J.R.)
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is an introductory work developed on the basis of the classic theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The author states that the purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive analytical framework for discourse analysis. In fact, it also modifies and develops Halliday's linguistic theory. To be precise, the author Martin takes Halliday and Hasan's theory of discourse cohesion as a starting point, develops the semantic level and context level of the classic theory by exploring the semantic system and structure of the discourse. Overall, this book inherits and develops the classic Systemic Functional Model. The inheritance has two points. , the discourse is a social semantic unit, and here the author clearly distinguishes between lexical grammar and discourse semantics, explaining that the two levels are regulated by grammatical metaphor and organized by metafunction. Second, lexical grammar is the basic element of discourse analysis, but its focus is on the role of contextual constraints.