Category
page 1Systemic functional linguistics
prosody
part of linguistics concerned with elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments, but properties of syllables and larger units of speech
register
form of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation
intonation
variation of pitch in speech
discourse analysis
generic term for the analysis of social, language policy or historiographical discourse phenomena
Michael Halliday
Australian linguist (1925-2018)
topic–comment
terms describing sentence structure in linguistics
text linguistics
branch of linguistics
cohesion
grammatical and lexical linking in text
Jan Mukařovský
Czech essayist, estheticist, literary theorist and university educator (1891-1975)
contextualism
Contextualism, also known as epistemic contextualism, is a family of views in philosophy which emphasize the context in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs. Proponents of contextualism argue that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or expression can only be understood relative to that context. Contextualist views hold that philosophically controversial concepts, such as "meaning P", "knowing that P", "having a reason to A", and possibly even "being true" or "being right" only have meaning relative to a specified context. Other philosophers contend that context-depen
John Rupert Firth
English linguist (1890-1960)
systemic functional linguistics
(SFL)
Ruqaiya Hasan
Indian linguist
systemic functional grammar
form of grammatical description originated by Michael Halliday
language level
quality level of a text, discourse or corpora
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Swedish linguist
John A. Bateman
British linguist and semiotician