Carmel Cloran

List of John Benjamins publications in which Carmel Cloran is involved.

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Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice

Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt

This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity — or case grammar, to use the popular term — has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 121] 1996. xxxvi, 381 pp.

Cloran, Carmel 2010 Rhetorical unit analysis and Bakhtin’s chronotype Functions of Language 17:1, pp. 29–70 | Article

Bakhtin introduced the concept of chronotope (chronos = time; topos = space) to facilitate his exploration of the ways in which space-time intersections occur in literary texts. However, he also suggests that chronotopes characterise non-literary texts — indeed, that “every entry into the sphere… read more

Cloran, Carmel 1999 7. Context, material situation and text Text and Context in Functional Linguistics, Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.), pp. 177–218 | Article

Cloran, Carmel 1995 10. Defining and relating text segments: subject and theme in discourse On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective, Hasan, Ruqaiya † and Peter H. Fries (eds.), pp. 361–404 | Article

Hasan, Ruqaiya † and Carmel Cloran 1990 A Sociolinguistic Study of Everyday Talk between Mothers and Children Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 67–99 | Article