Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
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Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
Akila Sellami-Baklouti [+]
University of Sfax, Tunisia
Akila Sellami-Baklouti is Associate Professor of English language and linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Sfax, Tunisia.
Description
This chapter argues for the suitability of a conditional probabilistic approach to Choice, which constitutes a defining concept in systemic functional theory, where structure is to be interpreted as ‘the outward form taken by systemic choices’.