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Linguistic Prefabrication

A Discourse Analysis Approach

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  1. Jianxin Ding

    1. School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, China

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  • Appeals to scholars working in linguistics, discourse analysis and lexicology
  • Serves as a reference book or textbook for Systemic Functional Grammar researchers and Corpus Linguistics researchers
  • Benefits scholars engaged in Advertising, Communication, and Sociology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 1-15

  3. A Review of Related Literature on Collocation: Firthianism and Beyond

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 17-34

  4. Theoretical Framework: Collocation in Systemic Functional Perspectives

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 35-54

  5. Ideational Collocations: Conventional Ways of Representing the World

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 55-70

  6. Interpersonal Collocations: Dialogue, Conviviality and Narrative Voices

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 71-86

  7. Textual Collocations: Logical and Temporal Cohesion

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 87-107

  8. Collocational Metaphors: Between Creativity and Prefabrication

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 109-131

  9. Conclusions and Implications

    • Jianxin Ding
    Pages 133-144

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 145-158
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About this book

This book presents an innovative exploration of linguistic prefabrication in the travel advertising discourse from a functional perspective. Most of the previous studies on prefabricated language have adopted a structural, systematic point of view. This study, however, aims at exploring its functions in discourse. The material examined here is the discourse of travel advertising, which has become one of the candidates for ‘late modern discourse par excellence’ and rarely been discussed before. 
The study covers a wide range of topics, essentially attempting to model linguistic idiomaticity in Systemic Functional Grammar. It assesses how the two fundamental principles of language use, the ‘idiom principle’ and the ‘open-choice principle’, interact with each other to construct English texts. As a counterweight to the traditional structural approach to collocations and idiomatic expressions, this study investigates the ‘phraseology’ of the register of travel advertising, andexplores prefabrication and conventionalization in language use and human behavior. It seeks to answer the age-old question of whether human beings are ‘primarily like buses, which travel along regular routes’ or ‘like taxis, which move about freely’. Ritualization, as sociological and anthropological theory have long since recognized, is simply characteristic of all aspects of human behavior and its contexts. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, China

    Jianxin Ding

About the author

Jianxin Ding is a Professor at the Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-Sen University. He has been selected as a member of the “Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University Supported by the Ministry of Education in China” and the “Hundred Talents of Sun Yat-Sen University”. At Sun Yat-sen University, he serves as Director of the Language Studies Institute. He also serves as Dean of the School  of Foreign Languages, Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University.


Professor Ding is one of the key scholars in the fields of Critical Discourse Studies, Functional Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Marginal Discourse Analysis in China.  He has completed a number of Philosophical and Social Science Research Projects funded by Guangdong Province, Ministry of Education and the National Social Science Foundation. He has published extensively in prominent academic journals. He has also published several monographs, including Language Studies in Critical Perspective, Critical Discourse Analysis of Narration: A Social-Semiotic Approach, A Cultural Turn: Genre Analysis and Discourse Analysis, etc. As the editor-in-chief of Liberal Education Series, he has published roughly 20 textbooks. He is the editor-in-chief of the Nankai Discourse Studies Series, as well as the executive editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Research in East Asia.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Linguistic Prefabrication

  • Book Subtitle: A Discourse Analysis Approach

  • Authors: Jianxin Ding

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7010-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7009-9Published: 01 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4985-0Published: 12 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7010-5Published: 21 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Discourse Analysis, Stylistics

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