Language as Behaviour, Language as Code : a study of academic English.

This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one appro...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Lynne (Linguist)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
Subjects:
Online Access:Click for online access

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Mi 4500
001 ocn741492869
003 OCoLC
005 20240809213013.0
006 m o d
007 cr |n|---|||||
008 110718s1991 pau o 000 0 eng d
040 |a EBLCP  |b eng  |e pn  |c EBLCP  |d OCLCQ  |d IDEBK  |d OCLCQ  |d YDXCP  |d OCLCQ  |d ZCU  |d OCLCQ  |d MERUC  |d ICG  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d DKC  |d AU@  |d OCLCQ  |d MNE  |d UKAHL  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCL  |d SXB 
019 |a 743204726  |a 816850468 
020 |a 9789027283276 
020 |a 9027283273 
020 |a 1283174219 
020 |a 9781283174213 
035 |a (OCoLC)741492869  |z (OCoLC)743204726  |z (OCoLC)816850468 
050 4 |a PE1128.A2 
072 7 |a CF  |2 bicssc 
049 |a HCDD 
100 1 |a Young, Lynne  |c (Linguist)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjyTG7J8bjvrF98TXKpYxC 
245 1 0 |a Language as Behaviour, Language as Code :  |b a study of academic English. 
260 |a Amsterdam/Philadelphia :  |b John Benjamins Pub. Co.,  |c 1991. 
300 |a 1 online resource (313 pages) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a LANGUAGE AS BEHAVIOUR, LANGUAGE AS CODE A STUDY OF ACADEMIC ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Chapter 1: The Social Functional Linguistic Tradition and Approach; Diagram 1: Communication linguistics model of language; Chapter 2: Analysis; PART ONE: SITUATING THE ANALYSIS; PART TWO: PHASAL ANALYSIS; Chapter 3: Results; PART ONE: REGISTERIAL CONSTRUCTS; PART TWO: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SPOKEN DISCOURSES AND WRITTEN TEXTS; Chapter 4: Conclusion; PART ONE: A REAPPRAISAL OF THE MODEL OF ANALYSIS. 
505 8 |a PART TWO: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONSAppendix 1: Transitivity System; Appendix 2: Mood System; Appendix 3: Chart of E.R. Ewer's Modals; Appendix 4: Charts of Phasal Characteristics: Discourses and Texts; Appendix 5: Transcripts of Discourses and Texts; Appendix 6: Discourse and Text Phases; Appendix 7: Sample Worksheet for Analysis; References. 
520 |a This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach to the analysis of language in order to test whether something of significance can be said about the typology of texts and discourse. The approach chosen is Systemic Functional Grammar, with its roots in the Prague School of Linguistics and the London School of J.R. Firth, a theory that is particularly. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
650 0 |a English language  |x Study and teaching (Higher)  |x Foreign speakers  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Interdisciplinary approach in education  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Education, Higher  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a English language  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Pragmatics. 
650 7 |a pragmatics.  |2 aat 
650 7 |a Education, Higher  |x Social aspects  |2 fast 
650 7 |a English language  |x Social aspects  |2 fast 
650 7 |a English language  |x Study and teaching (Higher)  |x Foreign speakers  |x Social aspects  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Interdisciplinary approach in education  |x Social aspects  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Pragmatics  |2 fast 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Young, Lynne.  |t Language as Behaviour, Language as Code : A study of academic English.  |d Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1991 
856 4 0 |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/holycrosscollege-ebooks/detail.action?docID=731650  |y Click for online access 
903 |a EBC-AC 
994 |a 92  |b HCD