JOURNAL ARTICLE

Systemic functional linguistics, corpus linguistics, and the ideology of science

Susan Hunston

Year: 2013 Journal:   Text and Talk Vol: 33 (4-5)   Publisher: De Gruyter

Abstract

Abstract This paper considers the relationship between research using systemic functional linguistics and research of the kind referred to as corpus linguistics, specifically in a study of ideology in a popular science text. The paper argues that ideas in SFL and corpus linguistics may be regarded as parallel (register), divergent (grammar and phraseology), and complementary (lexis and taxonomy). Following a review of research in these areas, the paper presents a case study of evaluation of status in a popular science book (

Keywords:
Lexis Phraseology Linguistics Corpus linguistics Applied linguistics Systemic functional linguistics Quantitative linguistics Text linguistics Media linguistics Contrastive linguistics Computational linguistics Clinical linguistics Systemic functional grammar Grammar Ideology Construction grammar Sociology Taxonomy (biology) Sociocultural linguistics Cognitive linguistics Philosophy Psychology Political science Cognition

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Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Social Sciences →  Arts and Humanities →  Literature and Literary Theory
linguistics and terminology studies
Social Sciences →  Arts and Humanities →  Language and Linguistics
Lexicography and Language Studies
Social Sciences →  Arts and Humanities →  Language and Linguistics

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