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This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmatics down to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels. The many exercises, categorized according to degree of difficulty, ensure that students are challenged to use the theory in a creative manner, and invite them to test and evaluate the theory by applying it to the new data in various linguistic contexts. Evelien Keizer uses examples from a variety of sources to demonstrate how the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar can be used to analyse and explain the most important functional and formal features of present-day English. The book also contains examples from a wide variety of other typologically diverse languages, making it attractive not only to students of English linguistics but to anyone interested in linguistic theory more generally.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

• Full title: Functional Discourse Grammar for English
• Author: Evelien Keizer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9780199571871
• ISBN: 0199571872
• ID: 05073473
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 644 g
• Dimensions: 172 × 248 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. January 2015

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