A Functional Interpretation of Company Brochures - from Context to Text

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Communicative Purpose as Genre Determinant

Through the years researchers and LSP teachers alike have used various parameters for classifying texts. This article sets out to discuss the notion of ‘communicative purpose’ as a means for classifying text. It points to some of the difficulties associated with the functional approaches to genre classification in general and the notion of “commu-nicative purpose” in particular

Berge, Coppock, Maagerø (red.): Å skape mening med språk. En samling artikler av M.A.K. Halliday, R. Hasan og J.R. Martin. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag as, 1998

The aim of this review article is to evaluate and discuss the above collection of syste-mic functional articles – translated into Norwegian and edited by Berge, Coppock and Maagerø. Furthermore, the article introduces the core concepts of SFL and provides an overview of the use of SFL in a Danish context

Medical texts made simple - dream or reality?

This article is concerned with some of the problems medical companies have in trying to produce user-friendly medical texts. Research has shown that consumer information within the medical field is often difficult to understand for the non-specialist. There are several reasons for this. One is the frequent use of special language features in texts concerned with consumer information. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of special language and suggests ways in which specialist words and expressions may be downgraded and simplified in order to accommodate the intended non-specialist target group

Communicative Purpose as Genre Determinant

Through the years researchers and LSP teachers alike have used various parameters for classifying texts. This article sets out to discuss the notion of ‘communicative purpose’ as a means for classifying text. It points to some of the difficulties associated with the functional approaches to genre classification in general and the notion of “commu-nicative purpose” in particular