Relations and Functions within and around Language

Michael Cummings is Professor of English at York University in Canada. Peter H. Fries is Professor of English and Linguistics at Central Michigan University. David G. Lockwood is Professor of Linguistics at Michigan State University, USA. He is co-editor, with Michael Cummings, Peter H. Fries and William Spruiell, of Relations and Functions within and around Language (Continuum, 2001).

• Part 1 Theory: relations and functions within and around language - the systemic-functional tradition, Michael Gregory; ideology, intertextuality and the communication of science, Jay L. Lemke; interpersonal meaning and the discursive construction of action, attitudes and values, Paul J. Thibault; the flow of information in a written English text, Peter H. Fries; intrastratal and interstratal relations in language and their functions, David G. Lockwood; linguistics from a semiotician's perspective, Terry Threadgold. Part 2 Application: memory and dicourse, Stephen A. Tyler; highlighting in stratificational-cognitive linguistics, David G. Lockwood; interpreting discourse, Sydney Lamb; prosody and emotion in a sample of real speech, Wallace Chafe; phasal analysis within communication linguistics -two contrastive discourses, Michael Gregory; some aspects of coherence in a conversation, Peter H. Fries; lexical cohesion, field and genre - parcelling experience and discourse goals, James R. Martin.