Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective

Table of contents......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
INTONATIONAND MEANING IN SPONTANEOUS DISCOURSE......Page 12
NOTES......Page 35
REFERENCES......Page 36
ON THE INEFFABILITY OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES......Page 38
SYSTEMIC SYNTAX FROM A LEXICAL POINT OF VIEW......Page 64
Words and Lexical Items......Page 65
Fawcett's 'Proposals'......Page 66
Word and Morpheme......Page 68
The Genesis of Lexical Items......Page 70
The 'Cluster'......Page 71
Long Lexical Items......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 80
NOTES......Page 81
REFERENCES......Page 82
Introduction......Page 84
Hypothesis......Page 85
Evidence: Main Senses......Page 86
Minor Senses......Page 88
Counterexamples: General......Page 89
Counterexamples: First Sense......Page 90
Descriptive and Prescriptive Study......Page 93
Counterexamples: Second and Third Senses......Page 94
First Minor Sense......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 97
Table 1 Co-ordination of sense and syntax: summary......Page 99
Table 2 Co-ordination of sense and syntax......Page 100
Appendix......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 107
TEXT, TERMS AND MEANINGS: SOME PRINCIPLES OF ANALYSIS......Page 110
NOTES......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 127
1.0 Congruence and the Analysis of Directives......Page 130
2.0 Politeness in Linguistics......Page 132
3.0 Politeness, Speech Act Classification and the Semantics of Mood and Modalisation in English......Page 136
3.1 Semantic Force Options......Page 137
3.2 The Semantics of the 'Root' Modals......Page 138
3.31 Acceptability......Page 142
3.33 Politeness......Page 144
3.34 Relationships between Speech Act Classification and Politeness......Page 147
4.1 Methodology......Page 148
4.221 Hypotheses Relating Politeness to Speech Act Classification......Page 150
ON DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES IN THE SYNTAX OF ENGLISH......Page 166
NOTES......Page 192
REFERENCES......Page 194
1. The Problem......Page 196
2. The Method of Approach......Page 199
3. Model 1: A Purely Formal Grammar......Page 200
4. Model 2: A Grammar Incorporating the Traditional Subcategorizations......Page 202
5. Simplifying the Network in Model 2......Page 207
6. Model 3: A Grammar with a Semantic System Network......Page 213
7. Model 3: The Realization Rules......Page 219
8. The Price to be Paid......Page 222
9. Conclusions......Page 223
NOTES......Page 226
APPENDIX......Page 227
REFERENCES......Page 229
1.0 The Task of the Chooser and Inquiry Framework......Page 232
2.0 The Chooser of a System Asks an Inquiry......Page 233
2.1 Branching Inquiries: CommandQ......Page 234
2.3 The Choose Operator; Choice Conditions......Page 235
2.5 Chooser-based Typology of Systems......Page 236
3.0 Inter-stratal Organization: Above & Below Inquiries......Page 237
3.1 Above — the Environment: What Inquiries are Asked of......Page 238
4.0 Intra-stratal Organization......Page 239
4.1 Inquiry Organization within a Chooser: PRIMARY TENSE......Page 240
4.2 Organization beyond the Chooser — Inquiries and the Network: The MOOD Region......Page 243
4.3 A Network of Inquiries?: POLARITY......Page 244
5.0Factoring of the Framework......Page 245
6.0 Semantics and the Consumer......Page 246
6.3 Compatibility of Chooser-inquiry Semantics & Sociological Semantics......Page 247
7.0 Conclusion......Page 248
NOTES......Page 249
REFERENCES......Page 251
1.0 Introduction — Some Questions Concerning Linguistic Relativity......Page 254
2.1 Whorf s Hypothesis......Page 257
2.2 Whorf s Orientation......Page 258
2.3 Whorf's Method......Page 260
3.0 Three Grammatical Conspiracies in Tagalog......Page 263
3.1 Family —pakikisama......Page 264
3.2 Face pagkahiya & utang na loob......Page 274
3.3 Fate suwerte......Page 281
4.0 The Relation of Grammatical Conspiracies to Social Reality......Page 293
5.0 Related Linguistic Evidence......Page 297
6.0 Related Cultural Evidence......Page 301
7.0 Language and Social Context......Page 304
8.0 Conclusion......Page 307
REFERENCES......Page 309
GENERIC SITUATION AND REGISTER:                                 A FUNCTIONAL VIEW OF COMMUNICATION.1......Page 312
NOTE......Page 329
REFERENCES......Page 330
APPENDIX I TEXTS......Page 332
APPENDIX II......Page 334
WHAT DID MILTON SAY BELIAL SAID AND WHY DON'T THE CRITICS BELIEVE HIM?......Page 342
1. Genre......Page 365
2. The Frames, Deliberative Oratory and Intertextuality (other than generic)......Page 369
3. Belial's Speech......Page 373
A Note on Transitivity......Page 376
1. The Frames and Belial's Speech......Page 387
2. The Semiotics of Deceit and Literary Transmission......Page 390
Conclusion......Page 394
APPENDIX 1......Page 395
REFERENCES......Page 398
Introduction......Page 404
1.0 The ACTIVITY and the SITUATION......Page 406
2.1 Subject Theme......Page 416
2.2 Thematic 
Progression......Page 419
2.3 Process......Page 422
2.4 Rheme......Page 425
2.5 Integration of the Textual Analysis......Page 428
3.0 The Contribution of Music......Page 434
3.1 The Sound-basis of Language — Intonation and Phonology......Page 436
3.2 The Sound Basis of Music—Intonation and Tonal Harmony......Page 437
3.3 Interaction......Page 442
4.0 Conclusion......Page 447
NOTES......Page 448
APPENDIX......Page 449
REFERENCES......Page 450
INDEX......Page 454