System and Corpus: Exploring Connections

by Geoff Thompson

This book is the first to combine interests in two currently popular approaches to language description, both of which are based on the observation of naturally-occurring, as opposed to invented, language. Systemic Functional Linguistics is a theory that focuses on meaning, choice and probability in language and on language as a social phenomenon. Corpus Linguistics is a practice, rather than a theory: a corpus is a large collection of texts that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904768199
• ISBN13: 9781904768197
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"