The Language Dynamic - Gerard O'Grady
The Language Dynamic: Recursive Processes from Morpheme to Ideology
The Language Dynamic - Gerard O'Grady
Gerard O'Grady [+]
Cardiff University
Gerard O'Grady is a professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.
Tom Bartlett [+]
University of Glasgow
Tom Bartlett is Professor of Functional and Applied Linguistics in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. His doctoral fieldwork was on intercultural discourse between indigenous groups, national government and international development organisations. His research interests lie in the relationship between culture and genre and in developing hybrid genres that enhance the participation of minority groups in gatekeeping discourses.
Description
In Chapter 1 we set out our general position with respect to three enduring points of contention in linguistic theory: embodiment, autonomy and the primacy of form or function. This discussion provides an essential backdrop to our theorising of language dynamics and the place within this of the core processes and properties we discuss in detail in the remainder of the book. These are the processes of distinction, articulation and prospection, and the attendant properties of these processes are systematicity, redundancy, stratality, metaredundancy, criteriality and serviceable noise. We finish Chapter 1 with a preview of the remaining chapters of the book.