Researching Language in Schools and Communities: Functional Linguistic Perspectives - Couverture souple

Unsworth, Len

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0304702455 ISBN 13 : 9780304702459

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1999

Synopsis

This text is designed as an introductory resource for those who wish to carry out or study research in children's language development, teaching English as a second language, children's literature, causal conversation, social class and language variation and other applied language research fields. The contributors are researchers in the field and introduce approaches to investigating such areas using systemic functional linguistics (SFL). A key purpose of the text is to facilitate the further engagement of language researchers with SFL perspectives, encouraging more collaborative transdisciplinary work across different fields of study and theoretical approaches in projects of mutual concern. The first two chapters outline the key aspects of SFL's relationship within language and social context and the inter-related text structures and grammatical systems. This provides background for those new to SFL to make productive, critical use of the research reviewed, studies described and advice on project design provided in the following chapters. The book is intended as an introductory resource and, as such, particular attention has been paid to provision of clear references to more elaborated accounts of important issues discussed.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Researching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carry out and / or study research in children's language development, teaching English as a second language, children's literature, casual conversation, social class and language variation, classroom discourse, reading processes, teaching writing, literacy and curriculum area learning, critical literacies and related areas. The contributors are among the foremost researchers in these fields. In this book they introduce approaches to help investigate such areas in applied langauge research using systemic functional linguistics (SFL). A key purpose of this text is to facilitate the further engagement of language researchers with SFL perspectives, encouraging more collaborative transdisciplinary work across different fields of study and theoretical approaches in projects of mutual concern. The first two chapters outline the key aspects of SFL descriptions of the relationships between language and social context and the inter-related descriptions of text structures and grammatical systems. This provides sufficient background to enable those coming new to SFL to make productive, critical use of the research reviewed, studies described and advice on project design provided in the following chapters. Nevertheless, the book is an introductory resource and particular attention has been paid throughout to the extensive provision of clear references to more elaborated accounts of the important issues discussed.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0304702455
• ISBN 13: 9780304702459
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Unsworth Len
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible