Bücher der Reihe Aachen British and American Studies / Aachener Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

The book is a collection of chapters that adopt a systemic functional perspective on linguistics. Chapters challenge theoretical notions, refine concepts, expand SFL to historical domains and across languages and transcend boundaries between different linguistic schools.

This collection from the fields of literature, theology and corpus linguistics focuses on ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, journalism and film. It is also concerned with larger philosophical notions of closure and apocalypse. It gives examples from fairytales, Byron, Longfellow, Dillard, Barnes and South African writers.