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Functionalism in Linguistics

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1987

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This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical, descriptive and applied issues from a functional point of view, testifying of the very wide-spread and in-depth impact of functionalist thought on the present-day linguistic scene.

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Douglas Walker, Language 65/3 (1989).:
The volume clearly demonstrates the correctness of the editor's contention that functionalist thinking continues to have a significant (i.e. essential and inextricable) impact on current linguistics. ...its relevance to current work in a period of theoretical ferment makes it higly recommended reading.

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    Prelim pages

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    Table of contents

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    By way of introduction

    ix
    René Dirven and Vilém Fried
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  • I. ‘Functional liguistics of Prague’ and other functional approaches
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    On Prague school functionalism in linguistics

    3
    Frantisek Danes
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    M.A.K. Halliday’s functional grammar and the Prague school

    39
    Kristin Davidse
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    Some principles of functional grammar

    81
    Simon C. Dik
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    S.C. Dik’s functional grammar

    101
    Rudi Gebruers
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  • II. The theme-rheme (tpoic-comment) issue in the Praguian tradition
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    On the delimitation of the theme in functional sentence perspective

    137
    Jan Firbas
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    Constitutive, informative and transformative models in modern English texts and sentences

    157
    Jiří Nosek
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    Prague functionalism an topic vs. focus

    169
    Petr Sgall
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    Functional sentence perspective and intensional logic

    191
    Aleš Svoboda and Pavel Materna
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    A functionalist approach to the acquisition of grammar

    209
    Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney
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    Functional sentence perspective in discourse and language acquisition

    265
    Wolf Paprotté and Chris Sinha
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    Processing strategies

    297
    Gary D. Prideaux
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  • IV. Functionalism in general linguistics
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    The overestimation of functionalism

    311
    William Labov
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    Function and structure in linguistic descriptions

    333
    W. Haas
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    Communication and expressivity

    357
    Axel Hübler
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    Functions of intonation

    381
    Jürgen Esser
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    Written language seen from the functionalist angle

    395
    Josef Vachek
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  • V. Functionalism in linguistic description
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    Word-formation and poetic language

    409
    Jean Boase-Beier
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    On acceptable violations of parallelism constraints

    425
    Alexander Grosu
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    A case of syntactic mimicry

    459
    James D. McCawley
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    Functionalism in contrastive analysis and translation studies

    471
    Vladimir Ivir
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    Index

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Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe
https://doi.org/10.1075/llsee.20
eBook ISBN: 9789027282484
Keywords for this book
Functional linguistics; Theoretical linguistics
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