Beschreibung:
Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning.
Introduction 1 Variety and 'Standard English' 2 A (very brief) history of English 3 Texts in societies: societies in texts 4 Some definitional problems 5 Cohesion, coherence and register 6 Interpreting the language 7 Genre 8 The case of literature