Some Lexicogrammatical Features of the Zero Population Growth Text

‘It Was Such a Handy Term’: Management Fashions and Pragmatic Ambiguity*

“…Nominalizations and compound phrases. Other sources of ambiguity that are pervasive in the later QM texts are nominalizations and compound phrases (Halliday, 1992). Nominalizations (for instance, the nouns management and improvement , originating from the verbs to manage and to improve ) denote both actions and their results, thus encompassing the concerns of those who expect results and those responsible for the action.…”

Transitivity in Brazilian Greenpeace's electronic bulletins

“…The theoretical background is based on the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFL), developed by Michael Halliday (HALLIDAY, 1973, 1978, 1985, 1992b, 1993HALLIDAY & MATTHIESSEN, 1999;HALLIDAY & MATTHIESSEN, 2004) and followers (EGGINS, 1994;MARTIN, MATTHIESSEN & PAINTER, 1997;THOMPSON, 1996THOMPSON, , 2004. SFL explains how language is structured as a semiotic system in different social contexts (EGGINS, 1994, p. 22-23), and sees it as a meaningmaking device deeply related to the social context around it (THOMPSON, 1998, p. 30).…”

“…These acts are influenced by the culture and situation contexts, and each choice has a specific value when compared to others. When making a choice, the speaker is also choosing not to use a number of wordings (HALLIDAY, 1991(HALLIDAY, , 1992a(HALLIDAY, , 1993STUBBS, 1996).…”

L’évolution du discours sur la qualité : d’une traduction à l’autre

“…Nous avons soumis ces trois préfaces à une variété d'analyses textuelles : identification de la structure rhétorique (Mann et Thompson, 1987 ;Mann et al, 1992) ; évaluation du degré et des sources de cohésion textuelle (Eggins, 1994 ;Halliday, 1985) ; analyse des chaînes lexicales (Eggins, 1994) et construction du champ notionnel (Matoré, 1953(Matoré, , 1985 ; analyse lexicale par agrégation inductive des termes (Halliday, 1992) ; analyse des groupes nominaux formés autour du mot qualité ; enfin, analyse des modalités (Halliday, 1985). Lorsque le cas le permettait, nous avons soutenu les analyses qualitatives de données quantitatives, en pondérant les résultats pour tenu-compte de la longueur des textes.…”