"meaning-making" space of English grammar: Such a survey needs a map-hence the notion that grammatical theory can serve as a theory for drawing the map (or indeed, maps reflecting different projections). Although the notion of grammar is often taken for granted, we have to recognize that th...
Learners overuse adverbs with modal meaning but underuse phrase-modifying adverbs. Most adjunct types are also underused. At several points, the native speakers prove to have a greater lexical repertoire.doi:info:doi/10.1075/itl.166.1.05hasHasselgård, HildeItl International Journal of Applied ...
By introducing syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations and the related lexico-grammar notion and grammatiealization,the article argues that the the choice for constructiing language structure,which involves mental process,should be made on the basis of the knowledge of the different levels of meaning th...
This conclusion is valid as sixth formers learnt to 1) view pronouns in conjunction with their general grammatical meaning; 2) distinguish the morphological features of pronouns; 3) classify pronouns according to their semantic affinity with the nominal parts of speech; 4) decline pronouns and ...
The results suggest that improved genre awareness might enable students to expand their language choices to some extent in a way that allows them to accommodate the genre demands, although their limited language proficiency might impede the expansion of meaning-making resources at a productive level....
(complex)'; that is, it aims to demonstrate the following two points: (i) the rank scale hierarchy of language should be extended upward from 'clause (complex)' to 'text (type)', from morpheme to text being a continuum; and (ii) text meaning and text wording, which should then be ...
Based on analyses of newspaper examples, it is demonstrated how the resources in question are ideational (clause complex, Angle) and interpersonal (modal Adjunct, modal auxiliary, mood) and how they 鈥 individually and in combination 鈥 emphasize different aspects of projection ...
The material piloted amongst both dentistry practitioners and students suggests that the applied strategies of morphological derivation, for instance, recognizing and building new words by gaining control of affixation devices, can be considered as useful tools in the new lexeme meaning-making process in...
BREXIT is a blend of British + exit, which expresses the meaning of'Britain exiting from the EU'. Although 'Brexit' clearly expresses an event (motion) meaning, as a nominalization, it also expresses nominal meaning. In systemic functional linguistics (SFL), nominalization is much broader than...
Harnessing the 'activation-construal dialectic' (Hasan 2009b:170) between context, meaning and wording, Baklouti investigates semantic and lexicogrammatical choices realizing the interpersonal uses of language in a corpus of 30 Peer Review Reports relevant to two disciplines: Mathematics and Linguistics....