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The dynamics of language use : functional and contrastive perspectives /
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricabl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
2005.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., v. 140. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Dynamics of Language Use
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Functional approaches to language
- 1. Introduction: Functionalism within the spectrum of linguistic theories
- 2. The main tenets of functionalism
- 3. Some further characteristics of functional approaches
- 4. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Resource list
- On contrastive linguistics
- 1. Some terminological issues
- 2. The revival of Contrastive Linguistics (CL)
- 3. Looking ahead: Challenges and problems
- Note
- References.
- Resource list
- The present book
- 1. Form and function in a cognitive perspective
- 2. Information structure
- 3. Collocations and formulaic language
- 4. Language learning
- 5. Discourse and culture
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Form and function in a cognitive perspective
- The relation of grammar to thought
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From thoughts to semantics
- 2.1. Selection
- 2.2. Categorization
- 2.3. Orientation
- 2.4. Combination
- 3. Differentiating semantics from grammar
- 4. Lexicalization and grammaticalization
- 5. Concluding remarks: Grammar and thought
- References.
- Communicative constructions in English and Spanish
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The communicative process
- 3. The communicative construction
- 3.1. The participants
- 3.2. The process: Communication as transfer
- 4. Constructions with verba dicendi
- 5. Constructions without verba dicendi
- 5.1. Discharge verbs
- 5.2. Cognitive verbs
- 5.3. Manner of speaking verbs
- 5.4. Instrumental verbs
- 5.5. Verbs of gesture
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Information structure
- Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Functional Grammar
- 3. Functional Discourse Grammar
- 4. Incremental Functional Grammar
- 5. Application to data
- 6. Discussion of the results
- 7. Conclusion
- Note
- References
- The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts
- 1. Background and aims
- 2. Towards a procedure for a quantitative interpretation of method of development
- 2.1. The method of development and the point in an expository text
- 2.2. Quantitative interpretation of the method of development and the point
- 3. Comparison of texts
- 3.1. Textual analysis of narrative.
- 3.2. Textual analysis of exposition
- 3.3. Extremely variant texts
- 4. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- On clefting in English and Spanish
- 1. Aims and background
- 2. The corpora and data
- 3. Formal properties
- 3.1. Do clefts exist in Spanish?
- 3.2. Clefts in English and Spanish
- 4. Semantic properties
- 4.1. Identifying constructions
- 4.2. Existential presupposition
- 4.3. The exhaustiveness implicature
- 5. Discourse-cognitive functions
- 5.1. Thematic flexibility
- 5.2. Newness-orientation
- 5.3. Interpersonal flavour
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References.