Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice
Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 121] 1996. xxxvi, 381 pp.
Carmel Cloran
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carmel Cloran plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
2010 Rhetorical unit analysis and Bakhtin’s chronotype Functions of Language 17:1, pp. 29–70 | Article
Bakhtin introduced the concept of chronotope (chronos = time; topos = space) to facilitate his exploration of the ways in which space-time intersections occur in literary texts. However, he also suggests that chronotopes characterise non-literary texts — indeed, that “every entry into the sphere… read more
1999 7. Context, material situation and text Text and Context in Functional Linguistics, Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.), pp. 177–218 | Article
1995 10. Defining and relating text segments: subject and theme in discourse On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective, Hasan, Ruqaiya † and Peter H. Fries (eds.), pp. 361–404 | Article
1990 A Sociolinguistic Study of Everyday Talk between Mothers and Children Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 67–99 | Article