Clare Painter

Coffin, Caroline, Clare Painter and Ann Hewings 2005 Argumentation in a multi party asynchronous computer mediated conference: A generic analysis Language and Social Life: Functional perspectives, Love, Kristina (ed.), pp. 41–63 | Article

This paper draws on systemic functional linguistic genre analysis to illuminate the way in which postgraduate applied linguistics students structure their argumentation within a multi party asynchronous computer mediated conference. Two conference discussions within the same postgraduate course… read more

Painter, Clare 2003 The use of a metaphorical mode of meaning in early language development Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli (eds.), pp. 151–167 | Article

Painter, Clare 1996 David J. Messer. The Development of Communication: From Social Interaction to Language Functions of Language 3:1, pp. 147–149 | To be specified

Painter, Clare 1996 Learning about learning: Construing semiosis in the pre-school years Functions of Language 3:1, pp. 95–125 | Article

Systemic-functional linguistics (SFL) is used as a framework within which a child's 'cognitive' development can be seen in linguistic terms as the building of a meaning potential which gains realisation in texts. Data are then presented from a diary study of one child's speech between the ages of… read more

Painter, Clare 1995 Review of Bloom (1993): The Transition from Infancy to Language: Acquiring the Power of Expression Functions of Language 2:1, pp. 95–98 | Review

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