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Functional Approaches to Language / ed. by Carmen Jany, Shannon Bischoff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 248Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (251 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110285215
  • 9783110285321
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410.1/8 23
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  • P147 .F8617 2013
  • P147 .F8617 2013
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- On the Intellectual Roots of Functionalism in Linguistics -- Functional Explanation and its Uses -- Structure and Function: A Niche-Constructional Approach -- Toward a Thought-Based Linguistics -- Changing Language -- An Outline of Discourse Grammar -- Towards an Experimental Functional Linguistics: Production -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index
Summary: Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings." Since the 1970s, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, typology, and documentary linguistics. Further, functional approaches have had a major impact outside linguistics in fields such as psychology and education, both in terms of theory and application. The main goal of functionalist approaches is to clarify the dynamic relationship between form and function (Thompson 2003:53). Functionalist perspectives have gained more ground over the past decades with more linguists resorting to functional explanations to account for linguistic structure. The authors in this volume present the current state of functional approaches to linguistic inquiry expanding our knowledge of language and linguistics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- On the Intellectual Roots of Functionalism in Linguistics -- Functional Explanation and its Uses -- Structure and Function: A Niche-Constructional Approach -- Toward a Thought-Based Linguistics -- Changing Language -- An Outline of Discourse Grammar -- Towards an Experimental Functional Linguistics: Production -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index

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Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings." Since the 1970s, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, typology, and documentary linguistics. Further, functional approaches have had a major impact outside linguistics in fields such as psychology and education, both in terms of theory and application. The main goal of functionalist approaches is to clarify the dynamic relationship between form and function (Thompson 2003:53). Functionalist perspectives have gained more ground over the past decades with more linguists resorting to functional explanations to account for linguistic structure. The authors in this volume present the current state of functional approaches to linguistic inquiry expanding our knowledge of language and linguistics.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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