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- Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: choice in contemporary systemic functional theory
- Part I Choice: Theory and Debate
- Part II Cognitive and Neurolinguistic Views on Choice
- Part III Linguistic Constraints on Choice
- Part IV Cultural and Contextual Constraints on Choice
- 13 Choice, system, realisation: describing language as meaning potential
- 14 ‘Choice’ in relation to context: a diachronic perspective on culturalvaleur
- 15 Material action as choice in field
- 16 “I’ll manage the context”:1context, environment and the potential for institutional change
- 17 Towards a study of the differences between formal written English and informal spoken English
- 18 Genre-driven constraints on semantic choice
- Part V Interpreting Choice
- References
- Index
15 - Material action as choice in field
from Part IV - Cultural and Contextual Constraints on Choice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2013
- Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: choice in contemporary systemic functional theory
- Part I Choice: Theory and Debate
- Part II Cognitive and Neurolinguistic Views on Choice
- Part III Linguistic Constraints on Choice
- Part IV Cultural and Contextual Constraints on Choice
- 13 Choice, system, realisation: describing language as meaning potential
- 14 ‘Choice’ in relation to context: a diachronic perspective on culturalvaleur
- 15 Material action as choice in field
- 16 “I’ll manage the context”:1context, environment and the potential for institutional change
- 17 Towards a study of the differences between formal written English and informal spoken English
- 18 Genre-driven constraints on semantic choice
- Part V Interpreting Choice
- References
- Index
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- Systemic Functional LinguisticsExploring Choice, pp. 318 - 341Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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