Language, discourse, style : selected works of John McH. Sinclair / edited by Sonia Zyngier, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
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- xxiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Sinclair, John, 1933-2007 and Zyngier, Sonia
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- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Education, language teaching and stylistics -- ch. 1 Linguistics and the teaching of English -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Direct teaching -- 1.3.The teacher as a linguist -- 1.4.Traditional grammar -- 1.5.The native speaker as learner -- 1.6.Section I: Summary -- 1.7.Linguistic theories -- 1.8.Language development -- 1.9.Comprehensiveness -- 1.10.Internal relations -- 1.11.Language skills -- 1.12.Section II: Summary -- ch. 2 The integration of language and literature in the English curriculum -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Command of a language -- 2.3.Shortcomings of linguistics in relation to command of a language -- 2.4.Shortcomings of literary criticism in relation to command of a language -- 2.5.The curriculum -- 2.6.An extended example -- ch. 3 Language awareness in six easy lessons -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Productivity -- 3.3.Creativity -- 3.4.Stability and change -- 3.5.Social variation -- 3.6.How to do things with language -- 3.7.The two-layered code -- ch. 4 Large corpus research and foreign language teaching -- 4.1.The advent of large corpora -- 4.2.New evidence -- 4.3.Implications for teaching the language -- 4.4.Conclusion -- pt. II Linguistic stylistics -- ch. 5 When is a poem like a sunset? -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Poem as sample of language -- 5.3.The Experiment -- 5.3.1.Tabulation of changes -- 5.3.2.Stylistic categories -- 5.4.Summary -- ch. 6 Taking a poem to pieces -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Analysis of "First Sight" -- 6.2.1.Sentence structure -- 6.2.2.Clause structure -- 6.2.3.Line boundaries -- 6.2.4.Groups: Verbal, adverbial and nominal -- 6.3.Conclusion -- ch. 7 A technique of stylistic description -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Analytical principles -- 7.3.Verse paragraphs -- 7.4.Acceleration -- 7.5.Sentence structure -- 7.6.Stanza 1 -- 7.7.Topic -- 7.8.Clause-to-line fit -- 7.9.Clause-to-line fit: Initiation -- 7.10.Stanza types -- 7.11.Clause structure -- 7.12.Verb classification -- 7.13.The definite article -- 7.14.Clause structure concluded -- 7.15.Verbal group structure -- 7.16.Nominal group structure -- 7.17.Adverbial groups -- 7.18.Part versus whole -- 7.19.Conclusion -- ch. 8 Lines about "Lines" -- 8.1.Introduction: Focats -- 8.2.Metrical and meaningful units -- 8.3.`Tight' to `loose' structures -- 8.4.Copying -- 8.5.Arrest -- 8.6.Extension -- 8.7.Rank -- 8.8.Process of analysis -- 8.9.Summary -- ch. 9 The linguistic basis of style -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Arbitrariness -- 9.2.1.Between sign and referent -- 9.2.2.Between proposition and exponence -- 9.3.Structural superfluity -- 9.4.Derivational hierarchy -- 9.5.Idiom -- 9.6.Reference systems and their referents -- 9.7.Conclusion -- pt. III Style and discourse -- ch. 10 Mirror for a text -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.The model -- 10.3.Verb tense -- 10.4.Attribution -- 10.5.Integration -- 10.6.Time -- 10.7.People -- 10.8.Narrative -- 10.9.Mopping up -- 10.10.Conclusion -- ch. 11 Poetic discourse: A sample exercise -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.General commentary -- 11.3.Layout and punctuation -- 11.3.1.Constant features of layout -- 11.3.2.Punctuation -- 11.3.2.1.Mid- and end-lines -- 11.3.2.2.Chunking -- 11.4.Metrics -- 11.4.1.Line length -- 11.4.2.Commentary -- 11.5.Syntax -- 11.5.1.Lists -- 11.5.2.Arrest -- 11.5.3.Continue -- 11.5.4.Transitivity -- 11.5.5.Obscurity -- 11.5.5.1.Stanza 1, line 2 -- 11.5.5.2.Stanza 1, line 3 -- 11.5.5.3.Stanza 1, line 5 -- 11.5.5.4.Stanza 1, lines 10--12 -- 11.5.5.5.Stanza 2, lines 16 and 17 -- 11.5.5.6.Stanza 2, line 22 -- 11.5.5.7.Stanza 3, line 30 -- 11.5.5.8.Stanza 3, line 32 -- 11.5.5.9.Stanza 3, line 33 -- 11.5.6.Commentary -- 11.5.6.1.Parallelism -- 11.5.6.2.Text shape -- 11.6.Grammetrics -- 11.7.Lexis -- 11.7.1.First grouping -- 11.7.2.Second grouping -- 11.7.3.Third grouping -- 11.8.Information structure -- 11.8.1.Pattern 1 -- 11.8.2.Pattern 2 -- 11.8.3.Pattern 3 -- 11.8.4.Pattern 4 -- 11.8.5.Pattern 5 -- 11.9.Discourse structure -- 11.10.Final comments -- ch. 12 The exploitation of meaning: Literary text and local grammars -- 12.1.Introduction -- 12.2.Objectivity -- 12.3.Computing methodology -- 12.4.PALA priorities -- 12.5.Heroic couplets -- 12.6.A commentary on Pope's verses -- 12.7.A local grammar for the Essay on Man -- 12.8.The Couplet -- 12.9.Conclusion -- 12.10.Coda -- ch. 13 Fictional worlds revisited -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Fact and averral -- 13.3.Correspondence -- 13.4.Discourse -- 13.5.Misleading language -- 13.6.Artefact -- 13.7.Fictional worlds -- 13.8.Fictional narrator -- 13.9.Communicative purpose -- 13.10.Conclusion -- ch. 14 "Passion speechlesse lies" -- 14.1.Introduction -- 14.2.The poem as record of verbal interaction -- 14.3.Identifying and tracking participants -- 14.3.1.Pronouns -- 14.3.2.Imperatives -- 14.3.3.Personification -- 14.3.4.Discussion -- 14.4.Narrative techniques in storytelling -- 14.4.1.Verb Forms -- 14.4.2.Time frame -- 14.4.3.Arrest -- 14.4.4.Discussion -- 14.5.The poem and the context of situation -- 14.5.1.Informality -- 14.5.2.Interaction -- 14.5.3.Poetic Diction -- 14.5.4.Discussion -- 14.6.An Interpretation -- ch. 15 Coda: Unlearning the intuitive analogue as Sinclairan digital proofs transcend stylistics by Bill Louw -- 15.1.Introduction -- 15.2.The latent debt to philosophy -- 15.3.The developmental link with literacy and lexicographic instrumentation -- 15.4.`Difficult stylistics': Grammar vs Subtext and the example of "The Legs" / Robert Graves -- 15.5.Corpus-derived Subtext: A stylistic theory that `wags the dog' and itself becomes a new linguistic theory -- 15.6.Do Sinclairan corpora provide for stylisticians what Dummett needed in order, fully, to settle his view of the philosophy of language? -- 15.7.Conclusion -- 15.7.1.Trends within Sinclair's stylistics -- 15.7.2.The debt to scholarship and to theory.
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- 9789027234117 hardcover alkaline paper
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- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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