Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Text and Discursive Context

by Paul Bayley (Editor), Donna R. Miller (Editor)

Overview

This volume addresses the increasingly typical nature of text and discourse: 'hybridity'. In an SFL perspective, this means that the cultural and situational contexts that tend to activate meanings and wordings must also be seen as being 'hybrid', or as Hasan (2000) has more fittingly put it, 'permeable': "It is not simply that predetermined qualities of genres are being mixed, combined, hybridized: the fact of the matter is that by these devices people extend, elaborate and reclassify their discursive contexts. Derrida's celebrated claim that one cannot not mix genres should really be rephrased as contexts of life cannot but be permeable; the rest follows by the dialectic of language and discursive situation." This is indeed the main message, and mission, of the book, which focuses on hybridity/permeability within the social and cultural contexts in which discourse occurs and of discourse types (covering a wide range of genres, registers, text-types, etc.), but also hybridity within the stratum of lexicogrammar itself. The volume also addresses the implications of hybridity for education and the professions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781790649
Publisher:	Equinox Publishing
Publication date:	02/25/2016
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Donna R. Miller holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Bologna, Italy, where she coordinates the English Language Studies Program. Paul Bayley is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. He is coordinator of the BA programme in International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs and head of teaching and learning activities at the Bologna University Language Centre.

Table of Contents

1. Preliminaries: Hybridity & Systemic Functional Linguistics Donna R. Miller and Paul Bayley Part I: Grammatical Hybridity 2. On the (non)necessity of the hybrid category behavioural process David Banks, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale 3. Hybridity in Transitivity: Phraseological and metaphorically derived processes in the system network for TRANSITIVITY Gordon Tucker, Cardiff University (retired) 4. Hybridity and Process Types Jorge Arus Hita, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Part II: Hybridity: Implications for pedagogy and professional practice 5. Re-orienting semantic dispositions: The role of hybrid forms of language use in university learning Caroline Coffin, Open University 6. Teaching through English: Maximal input in meaning making John Polias, Lexis Education, and Gail Forey, Hong Kong Polytechnic University 7. The multilayeredness of hybridity in the written stylistic analysis argument Anne Isaac, University of Melbourne (retired) 8. Activity types, discourse types and role types: Interactional hybridity in professional-client encounters Srikant Sarangi, Aalborg University Part III: Registerial—and/or generic—hybridity 9. Hybridization: how language users graft new discourses on old root stock Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool 10. Registerial hybridity: Indeterminacy among fields of activity Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Macquarie University, and Kazuhiro Teruya, Hong Kong Polytechnic University 11. Woolf's Lecture/Novel/Essay A Room of One's Own Carol Taylor Torsello, University of Padua (retired) 12. Genre and register hybridisation in an historical text Michael Cummings, York University, Toronto 13. Hybrid contexts and lexicogrammatical choices: Interpersonal uses of language in Peer Review Reports in Linguistics and Mathematics Akila Sellami-Baklouti, University of Sfax 14. The Permeable Context of Institutional and Newspaper Discourse: A corpus-based functional case study of the European sovereign debt crisis Sabrina Fusari, University of Bologna Part IV: A Closing Statement 15. In the Nature of Language: Reflections on permeability and hybridity Ruqaiya Hasan, Macquarie University (Emerita)

Editorial Reviews

"...This book provides a comprehensive and insightful framework for the analysis of hybridity within SFL and will be an excellent reference for researchers working on SFL, hybridity, discourse analysis, stylistics or language teaching." —Enhua Guo and Delu Zhang, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2017 "...Donna R. Miller and Paul Bayley must be congratulated on their impressive editorial work. The book is much to be recommended to any student, lecturer, or researcher interested in hybridity." —Ruby Rong Wei, LINGUIST List Vol. 28.1389 "Overall, the volume adds to readers' vectors for appreciating and investigating those linguistic phenomena that may be labeled as exhibiting fuzziness, indeterminacy, intersection, agnation or features subject to double coding, no matter whether the issue of hybridity or permeability emerges at the stratum or lexicogrammar, semantic discourse or context. This suffices to guarantee, in my view, that the volume will be welcomed by scholars and researchers interested in functional grammar, discourse analysis, genre analysis and the semogensis of social semiotic resources." —Wenchao Zhao Discourse Studies 19(5) "[The] volume offers much to language teachers, discourse analysts and language theorists, with the main strength of the volume being the inclusion of a rich array of highly instructive and engaging exemplar texts, situations and analytical approaches and a clear demonstration that SFL indeed has much to say about hybridity in discourse." —Wendy L. Bowcher, Sun Yat-sen University, Discourse and Society "...Taken as a whole, the volume is still a very valuable monograph on systemic functional linguistics. It is just like a beautiful chorus, meeting the needs of the development of the area. [...]All in all, it deserves to be carefully read by scholars who are committed to the study of systemic functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, professional practice, discourse analysis and stylistic analysis." —Wei Rong, The Journal of Foreign Languages Vol. 41 No. 1

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