Alison Rotha Moore
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alison Rotha Moore plays a role.
Articles
2022 Emotion in speech: A systemic functional semiotic approach to the vocalisation of affect Language, Context and Text 4:2, pp. 335–374 | Article
This paper explores how emotion is conveyed in spoken language based on a sample of three stories for children read aloud by a trained storyteller. It draws on both Martin & White’s appraisal framework (2005) and a systematic account of vocal features. Interpreting and profiling emotion is a… read more
2021 The pragmatism of drawing context networks: Social hierarchy and social distance as dimensions of Tenor Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theoretical developments and directions, Bowcher, Wendy L. and Tom Bartlett (eds.), pp. 260–290 | Article
Linguistics has embraced the functional and contextual turn but, when building tools for systematic contextual description, we have not made as much use as we could of our own functional traditions. Rather, we have largely relied on the metaphors of law and rule, which do not adequately capture… read more
2020 Ways of meaning: A case study of two oncologists’ answers to questions asked by advanced cancer patients and their companions Language, Context and Text 2:1, pp. 145–170 | Article
This paper explores one aspect of the operationalisation of a patient-centred ideology of care by examining an oncologist’s answers to questions asked by her patient and his companion during a palliative oncology consultation and comparing her answers to the markedly different answers of another… read more
2020 Progress and tensions in modelling register as a semantic configuration Language, Context and Text 2:1, pp. 22–58 | Article
Halliday (1978: 111) defines register as “the configuration of semantic resources that the member of a culture typically associates with a situation type.” Elsewhere, however, he stresses that when we talk of “a register” this is a term of convenience: register is more properly theorised as… read more
2005 Modelling agency in HIV treatment decision-making Language and Social Life: Functional perspectives, Love, Kristina (ed.), pp. 103–122 | Article
In applying linguistics to the task of analysing how agentivity is construed through verbal interaction, scholars often equate social agency with grammatical agency, and in particular with the grammar of transitivity. The difficulty I want to address in this paper is that we may miss other… read more