Functional approaches to language

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction
6. Functional approaches to language 3
7. On contrastive linguistics 19
8. The present book 47
9. Form and function in a cognitive perspective
10. The relation of grammar to thought 57
11. Communicative constructions in English and Spanish 79
12. Information Structure
13. Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary 113
14. The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts 129
15. On clefting in English and Spanish 155
16. Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish 197
17. Collocations and formulaic language
18. Formulaic language 221
19. A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units 243
20. Language learning
21. Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages 271
22. Timing in English and Spanish 287
23. Spanish and English intonation patterns 307
24. Discourse and culture
25. Emotivity in narrative discourse 327
26. Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse 349
27. English consciousness in 19th century Spain 371
28. Language index 395
29. Scholars index 397
30. Subject index 403