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  title info:
    title: Understanding Verbal Art
    sub title: A Functional Linguistic Approach
  name:
    name part: Webster, Jonathan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 130 p. 49 illus., 10 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book applies linguistic analysis to the poetry of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, a Singaporean poet and leading figure in Commonwealth literature. The work explores how the poet combines grammar and metaphor to make meaning, making the reader aware of the linguistic resources developed by Thumboo as the basis for his unique technique. The author approaches the poems from a functional linguistic perspective, investigating the multiple layers of meaning and metaphor which go into producing these highly textured, grammatically intricate works of verbal art. The approach is based on Systematic Functional Theory, which assists with investigating how the poet uses language (grammar) to craft his text, in a playful way that reflects a love of the language. The multilingual and multicultural experiences of the poet are seen to have contributed to his uniquely creative use of language. This work demonstrates how Systematic Functional Theory, with its emphasis on exploring the semogenic (meaning-making) power of language, provides the handle we need to better understand poetic works as intentional acts of meaning. The verbal art of Edwin Thumboo illustrate Barthes' point that "Bits of code, formulae, rhythmic models, fragments of social languages, etc. pass into the text and are redistributed within it, for there is always language before and around the text." With a focus on meaning, this functional analysis of poetry offers an insightful look at the linguistic basis of Edwin Thumboo's poetic technique. The work will appeal to scholars with an interest in linguistic analysis and poetry from the Commonwealth and new literatures, and it is also well suited to support courses on literary stylistics or text linguistics.
  table of contents: Stepping into meaning with Iskandar J in His Studio -- Gods can die -- David -- Conjunction -- A poet reading -- Language as power -- Uncle never knew.
  note: by Jonathan Webster.
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Philology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Language and Literature
  classification: P1-1091
  classification: 400
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
  identifier: 9783642550195
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55019-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 140922
    record change date: 20151204155208.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-55019-5