Science, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Language Change

A Festschrift for David Banks

Edited By: Shirley Carter-Thomas, Clive E. Hamilton

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This Festschrift honours the work of David Banks. The volume includes papers in the three main fields in which he has published: scientific writing, language change and systemic functional linguistics.

This book is intended as a Festschrift to honour the work of David Banks, Emeritus Professor of the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France. The founder…

This book is intended as a Festschrift to honour the work of David Banks, Emeritus Professor of the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France. The founder and former President of the Association Française de Linguistique Systémique Fonctionnelle, David Banks has been extremely active in bringing together linguists from different theoretical backgrounds in the study of both English and French. The volume includes papers in the three main fields in which he has published: namely, scientific writing, language change and systemic functional linguistics (SFL).

Shirley Carter-Thomas is Professor of English Linguistics and Communication at the Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, France, and a member of the CNRS research laboratory LATTICE. Her research areas span functional and contrastive linguistics, English for Specific Purposes and writing pedagogy. She is particularly interested in discourse organisation and information structure and in the analysis of the various linguistic features and markers used to signal text organisation in French and English.

Clive E. Hamilton is Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the Université de Paris, France. After teaching English for Academic Purposes for several years, he now teaches courses in English linguistics, phraseology, terminology and specialised translation. His principal research interest lies in the use of specialised corpora in a didactic perspective, including the analysis of French and English academic discourse and the analysis of learner corpora.