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English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar: A Critical Appraisal and an Alternative (Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language)
Carl Bache
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Hardcover. Offers a critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, that is, the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English. This book suggests that this account fails in several ways to satisfy accepted functionalist criteria, and hence needs revising and extending. Series: Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language. Num Pages: 192 pages, 13 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English. Supporting his criticisms with evidence from a project in corpus linguistics, Bache suggests that this account fails in several ways to satisfy accepted functionalist criteria, and hence needs revising and extending. After surveying alternative functionalist approaches to modeling time and tense in English (including Fawcett's Cardiff school approach and Harder's instructional-semantic approach), and after presenting a number ... Read more
This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English. Supporting his criticisms with evidence from a project in corpus linguistics, Bache suggests that this account fails in several ways to satisfy accepted functionalist criteria, and hence needs revising and extending. After surveying alternative functionalist approaches to modeling time and tense in English (including Fawcett's Cardiff school approach and Harder's instructional-semantic approach), and after presenting a number ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845533519
SKU
V9781845533519
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About Carl Bache
Carl Bache is Professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark. His recent publications include The Study of Aspect, Tense and Action: Towards a Theory of the Semantics of Grammatical Categories (1997) and Essentials of Mastering English (2000).
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