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Text Linguistics
M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster
Whether prose or poetry, how does a text come to mean what it does? A functional-semantic approach to text analysis, such as is illustrated in this book, offers a revealing look at the resources of language at work in the creation of meaning, and a unique perspective on the text as object of study....
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An Introduction to Relational Network Theory
Adolfo M. Garcia, William J. Sullivan, Sarah Tsiang, M.A.K. Halliday
This book offers an updated introduction to Relational Network Theory (RNT), a neurocognitive model of language compatible with systemic-functional tenets. It describes and illustrates the logical types of relations found in a linguistic network. Part I traces the evolution of RNT from the 1960s to...