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Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse : Applications and implications.

This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish Universitystudents on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints, disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-playeliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker thinks...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gómez González, Ma. de los Ángeles (María de los Ángeles)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; Volume 247.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Contributors; On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics; 1. Preliminary remarks; 2. Pragmatics and functionalism; 3. Chris Butler's contributions to functionalism and pragmatics; 4. The contributions in this volume; References; Part I. Methods in the analysis of language and discourse; Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy: The challenge of hybridity; 1. Introduction; 2. In pursuit of a comprehensive model of everything; 2.1 Butler's desiderata explored.
  • 2.2 Conceptualising the enterprise3. Hybridity; 3.1 Incompatible part-systems; 3.2 Accommodating hybridity in language; 4. Building a picture of hybridity in language; 4.1 Indeterminacy; 4.2 Bricolage: The diachronic origins of (some) hybridity; 4.3 Managing hybridity; 5. Hybridity and its consequences for linguistic modelling; 5.1 Hybridity in typologies: Sociocultural and cognitive influences; 5.2 The perpetuation of hybridity through acquisition and cognition ; 6. Conclusion; References; A method of analysing recontextualisation in the communication of science; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Recontextualisation2.1 Approach to analysis; 2.2 Analysis of recontextualisation; 3. Resemiotisation; 3.1 Approach to analysis; 3.2 Analysis of resemiotisation; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Corpus; References; Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project: Issues and problems; 1. Introduction; 2. Background issues: The CONTRANOT project; 3. Contrastive annotation of thematisation; 4. Contrastive annotation of modality features ; 5. Evaluation of the annotations; 6. Summary and concluding remarks; References; Appendix 1 ; Definition of Thematic Field (English).
  • English Core Tagset for Theme categories (Declarative clauses)Extended Tagset for English (Thematic Head Types); Appendix 2 ; Definition of Thematic Field (Spanish); Spanish Core Tagset for Theme categories (Declarative clauses); Extended Tagset for Spanish (Thematic Head Types); Appendix 3; Definition of Modality; Core Tagset for Modality categories; Form and function in evaluative language: The use of corpora to identify contextual valence shifters; 1. Introduction; 2. Linguistic approaches to the study of evaluation.
  • 2.1 Evaluating evaluation terms: Attitude, affect, stance, appraisal and evaluation2.2 Corpus approaches to evaluation: Grammar patterns and local grammars; 3. Computational approaches to sentiment analysis ; 4. Sentitext: A sentiment analysis system for Spanish; 4.1 Lexical resources; 4.2 Global sentiment value; 5. Context rules and contextual valence shifters: The use of corpora to identify and modulate valence assignment in text; 6. Conclusion; References; Life before Nation: Bibliometrics and L2 vocabulary studies in 1982; 1. Introduction; 2. The 1982 data; 3. The 2006 data.