Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach

Halliday, M.A.K.; Matthiessen, Christian

ISBN 10: 0826488927 / ISBN 13: 9780826488923

Editore: Continuum, 2006

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The focus of the book is both theoretical and descriptive. The authors consider it important that theory and description should develop in parallel, with constant interchange between the two. The major descriptive component is an account of the most general features of the ideational semantics of English, which is then exemplified in two familiar text types (recipes and weather forecasts). There is also a brief reference to the semantics of Chinese. Theoretical issues are raised throughout as they become relevant to the discussion, with the theoretical base being drawn from systemic functional linguistics. Both the theoretical and descriptive proposals offered in the book are compared and contrasted with approaches deriving from AI, cognitive science and cognitive linguistics.

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• Titolo: Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach
• Editore: Continuum
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0826488927
• ISBN 13: 9780826488923
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good

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The British theologian and New Testament scholar Austin Farrer was a member of "the Oxford Christians", conversing frequently with C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and T. S. Eliot. A. N. Wilson has called Farrer "the one true genius of the Church of England in the 20th century". Farrer's theory about the Synoptic Problem remains one the most debated theories of Synoptic relationships in contemporary New Testament scholarship. The editors have put together a book that makes the practical, spiritual meaning of Farrer's thought available to those who desire to integrate serious thinking with faithful life. Contributors to the volume include Ann Loades (University of Durham), Diogenes Allen (Princeton Theological Seminary), Julian N. Hartt (University of Virginia), Charles Hefling (Boston College), and O.C. Edwards (Seabury-Western Theological Seminary).David Hein is Professor and Chair of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College and the author of Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century. Edward Hugh Henderson is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University and co-editor with Brian Hebblethwaite of Divine Action: Studies Inspired by the Philosophical Theology of Austin Farrer.

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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 M. A. K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor ofLinguistics at the University of Sydney, Australis.

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is Chair Professor and Head in the Department of English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.