Modelling Text As Process: A Dynamic Approach to EFL Classroom Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780826426192 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 03/04/2010 Pages: 288 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d) A discourse analysis that is not based on grammar is likely to end up as a running commentary on a text, whereas a grammar-based one tends to treat text as a finished product rather than an on-going process. This book offers an approach to discourse analysis that is both grammar-based and oriented towards text as process. It proposes a model called TEXT TYPE within the framework of Hallidayan systemic-functional linguistics, which views grammatical choices in a text not as elements that combine to form a clause structure, but as semantic features that link successive clauses into an unfolding phase. It then demonstrates the model in actual analyses of 10 texts transcribed from 10 class hours' audio-recorded EFL classroom discourse, which in turban leads to the establishment of a dynamic system network that can be applied to future analyses of th