1. Contextual meaning and the legacy of J. R. Firth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: Only connect! 1
5. Section 1: Theoretical bearings
6. Preamble 6
7. Section 2: Linguistics and applied linguistics
8. Preamble 18
9. 1. Contextual meaning and the legacy of J. R. Firth 19
10. 2. Linguistic creativity and Jakobson’s poetic function 31
11. 3. Applied linguistics, interdisciplinarity and disparate realities 37
12. 4. On the applicability of empirical findings 51
13. Section 3: The analysis and interpretation of language use
14. Preamble 66
15. 5. The pretext of interpretation 67
16. 6. Interpersonal positioning and genre conventions 82
17. 7. “So the meaning escapes”. On literature and the representation of linguistic realities 96
18. 8. Critical practices: On representation and the interpretation of text 103
19. 9. The novel features of text. Corpus analysis and stylistics 118
20. 10. The unrecoverable context 129
21. 11. Macbeth and the third murderer. An exercise in forensic stylistics 139
22. Section 4: English as a lingua franca
23. Preamble 150
24. 12. ELF and the inconvenience of established concepts 152
25. 13. ELF and the pragmatics of language variation 171
26. 14. ELF, adaptive variability and virtual language 183
27. 15. The cultural and creative use of English as a lingua franca 189
28. 16. Creative incompetence 196
29. Section 5: Linguistics in language learning and teaching
30. Preamble 206
31. 17. The role of translation in language learning and teaching 207
32. 18. Bilingual competence and lingual capability 222
33. 19. Competence and capability: rethinking the subject English 233
34. 20. Reversions 244
35. References 256
36. Name Index 267
37. Subject Index 269