The notion of Choice provides a constant underlying theme to work in Systemic Functional Linguistics, whether this is concerned with in-depth description of the system of lexicogrammatical options available within specific languages or with the analysis of the semiotic and/or social implications of the choices taken within specific texts. Yet to date little has been published exploring the applicability of choice across various contexts. This book addresses this gap in the literature by presenting a selection of writings from internationally renowned authors that develop the analytical perspective of choice across wide-ranging contexts and in some cases in languages other than English. The book demonstrates the value of Systemic Functional Linguistics as an "applicable" linguistics, which is a core tool in broader fields such as pedagogy, literary studies and critical discourse analysis.
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Part A Interpersonal choice and the construction of author identity |
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1 `Busty babes and passionate pleasures': A systemic functional linguistic analysis of sex worker discourse in a South African city |
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2 Choice in a `partly free' press: Evaluative key in Italian journalistic discourse |
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3 The use of appraisal resources in the construction of second language teacher-researcher identity |
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86 | (23) |
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Part B Choice in political speech: Tension between the need to inform and project solidarity |
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4 The use of grammatical metaphor in French political tracts |
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111 | (14) |
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5 Choices in Tony's talk: Phonological paragraphing, information unit nexuses and the presentation of tone units |
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Part C The effects of choice in text-type |
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6 Choice and domain: A corpus-based study with special reference to the BNC Baby |
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161 | (26) |
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7 Investigating thematic choices in two newspaper genres: A methodological proposal |
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187 | (28) |
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8 A probabilistic approach to choice: The impact of contextual factors on the tactic system in research article abstracts |
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215 | (28) |
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9 Contentful and contentlight subject themes in informal spoken English and formal written English |
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243 | (26) |
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10 The differential patterned occurrence of ellipsis in texts varied for contextual mode: Some support for the `mode of discourse-textual metafunction' hook-up? |
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Part D The interplay of choice across different modalities |
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11 Textual and compositional choices in hotel brochures |
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12 A multimodal perspective on the front cover choices of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar Ann Montemayor-Borsinger |
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Gerard O'Grady is a Lecturer in Language and Communication, Tom Bartlett teaches SFL and Language, Genre and Ideology, and Lise Fontaine is a Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research, all at Cardiff University.
