Functional approaches to language

Since the 1970s functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory. Over the past decades it has gained more ground, and we now have a substantial body of literature from various perspectives making a positive impact on the field of l...

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Other Authors: Bischoff, Shannon T., Jany, Carmen, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 248.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • On the intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics / T. Givón
  • Functional explanation and its uses / Esa Itkonen
  • Structure and function : a niche-constructional approach / Peter Harder
  • Toward a thought-based linguistics / Wallace Chafe
  • Changing language / Michael P. Kaschak and Morton Ann Gernsbacher
  • An outline of discourse grammar / Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long
  • Towards an experimental functional linguistics : production / Lise Menn, Cecily Jill Duffield, and Bhuvana Narasimhan.