Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change

by Lynne Young, Claire Harrison

Overview

Any piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The key advantage of a systematic review over the traditional narrative review is its ability to identify all the available evidence in a systematic and relicable manner. This book describes a? the key steps to undertaking a systematic review and b/ the process of untertaking a meta-analysis. The book includes step-by-step examples of how to design data extraction forms, search strategies and combine in a meta-analysis

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826467737
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/2004
Series:	Open Linguistics
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Lynne Young is Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Carleton University, Canada.

Claire Harrison is a professional writer and editor and the co-author of Developing Online Content (John Wiley & Sons, 2000).

Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	vii
	Introduction to the Collection	1
	Theoretical Section
1.	Analysing Discursive Variation	15
2.	Predication, Propagation, and Mediation: SFL, CDA, and the Inculcation of Evaluative-Meaning Systems	53
3.	Mapping Distinction: Towards a Systemic Representation of Power in Language	68
4.	Role Prescriptions, Social Practices, and Social Structures: A Sociological Basis for the Contextualization of Analysis in SFL and CDA	85
	Applied Section: National Identity
5.	Critical Discourse Analysis in Researching Language in the New Capitalism: Overdetermination, Transdisciplinarity, and Textual Analysis	103
6.	Prolegomena to a Discursive Model of Malaysian National Identity	123
7.	Celebrating Singapore's Development: An Analysis of the Millennium Stamps	139
8.	The Representation of Social Actors in the Globe and Mail during the Break-up of the Former Yugoslavia	155
	Applied Section: Institutional Identity
9.	Authority and Its Role in the Pedagogic Relationship of Schooling	173
10.	The Principal's Book: Discursively Reconstructing a Culture of Teaching and Learning in an Umlazi High School	202
11.	Representations of Rape in the Discourse of Legal Decisions	217
12.	Bureaucratic Discourse: Writing in the 'Comfort Zone'	231
13.	Charismatic Business Leader Rhetoric: From Transaction to Transformation	247
14.	Ideological Resources in Biotechnology Press Releases: Patterns of Theme/Rheme and Given/New	264
15.	We have the Power--Or do We: Pronouns of Power in a Union Context	280
	Index	297