Relations and Functions within and around Language (Open Linguistics)
Relations and Functions within and around Language (Open Linguistics) by Michael Cummings is an illustrated edition published by Continuum on June 18, 2002. This comprehensive work explores language as a network of functional relations, emphasizing the contextual frameworks that shape these interactions. The book is structured into two parts, with the first presenting essays from various perspectives on the theory of language, while the second focuses on the analysis of oral texts through multiple functional lenses.
Readers will find a diverse range of essays contributed by internationally recognized linguists, addressing both oral and written texts. The discussions incorporate cognitive, social construction, social praxis, and anthropological approaches to text analysis. This edition highlights the emerging trend in linguistics towards the careful use of corpora for analyzing language, particularly the integration of spoken and written texts, an area that has seen limited exploration in existing literature. With 410 pages, this book serves as a significant contribution to the understanding of discourse analysis and functionalism in linguistics.
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This book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional relations. Part I presents essays from a variety of perspectives on the theory of language as functional relations. Part II presents essays which describe an oral text from a variety of functional perspectives. All of the essays are by linguists interested in oral and written texts who have achieved international recognition in their fields. Illustrated in this book are cognitive, social construction, social praxis and anthropological approaches to the description of text. Currently in linguistics there is a movement towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis. This movement has involved the use of written corpora, spoken corpora and corpora which consist of combinations of spoken and written text. But little detailed discussion of the language of oral texts has been published. Most text analyses address written texts — often literary works. This book is among the first to integrate the analysis of the language of spoken and written texts.
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