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Walking and talking: Traces of the body in the grammar and lexis of spontaneous spoken English

In recent years there has been much conjecture on the origins of language, and it has been suggested that current linguistic phenomena such as motherese, pidgin languages or homesigns created by deaf children of non-signing parents offer us a window on the origins and evolution of language...

Keywords: Language evolution, symbolic communication, mirror neurons, systemic functional linguistics, spontaneous spoken language, multi-word verbs

09/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Toward a more valid account of functional text quality: The case of the patient information leaflet

Patient drug and treatment information leaflets are an important adjunct to primary health care for medical practitioners to use with patients...

Keywords: written health-care materials, patient information leaflets, systemic functional linguistics, genre, readability, usability strategy

01/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Managing rhetoric in ‘smart’ journalism: Generic and semantic contours

Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) views genre as being culturally motivated and, therefore, properly theorized at the extralinguistic level of context (Halliday and Hasan 1985; Martin 1992, 1997)...

Keywords: systemic functional linguistics, generic structure potential, semantic move network, The Economist, Cambodia, newsmagazine

05/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Divide and rule: The power of adversarial subjectivities in the discourse of divorce

In this paper I analyze some of the texts used in the legal procedures of divorce in England and Wales...

Keywords: critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, language and power, family law, identity, bureaucratic discourse