Meaningful Arrangement: Exploring the Syntactic Description of Text - Couverture souple

McDonald, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845531485 ISBN 13 : 9781845531485

Editeur : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book takes apart and problematises the whole process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. It brings together two concepts syntax and text that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation to each other. Part 1, Processing the text, concentrates on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis. Since the data needs to be mediated through the processing of the text, the nature of that processing and its effects on subsequent analysis need to be made explicit. Part 2, Analysing the clause, introduces the relevant syntactic phenomena and the sorts of concepts normally used to explain them. It shows how many of the assumptions of traditional syntactic analysis derive from the languages which form the basis of the European tradition, and that different languages require the so-called "basic categories" of syntactic analysis to be rethought. Part 3, Theorising syntax, sketches the range of syntactic theories available for the "consumer". It gives a sense of developments in the field over the last 50 years not just in terms of the usual "schools", but by picking up on concepts such as the key complementarity between syntagmatic and paradigmatic to characterise the emphases and biases of different theories.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward McDonald is Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Auckland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845531485
• ISBN 13: 9781845531485
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible