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The Birth of the Academic Article - Le Journal des Sçavans and the Philosophical Transactions 1665-1700 - David Banks
Linguistic background
The Birth of the Academic Article - Le Journal des Sçavans and the Philosophical Transactions 1665-1700 - David Banks
Description
This section explains why Systemic Functional Linguistics has been chosen as a suitable framework. It then explains the aspects of the theory which will be exploited in the analyses, notably, thematic structure, process types, nominalization (as a form of grammatical metaphor), and the importance of the link between context and language.