Functions of Language

Editors
ORCID logoMartin Hilpert | University of Neuchâtel
ORCID logoJ. Lachlan Mackenzie | VU University Amsterdam
ORCID logoSumin Zhao | University of Edinburgh
Review Editor
ORCID logoMark Nartey | University of the West of England
Managing Editor
Caroline Gentens | KU Leuven | caroline.gentens at kuleuven.be

Functions of Language is an international journal of linguistics which explores the functionalist perspective on the organisation and use of natural language. It publishes articles and reviews books from the full spectrum of functionalist linguistics, seeking to bring out the fundamental unity behind the various schools of thought, while stimulating discussion among functionalists. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages. Its scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of pragmatics, conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, upon the structure of those languages.

Functions of Language publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 0929-998X | E-ISSN: 1569-9765
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fol
Latest articles

3 October 2024

  • Shu-Ling Wu , Lihong Huang Carl Polley . 2024. Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and applications
    Reviewed by Huilin Chen
  • 1 October 2024

  • Mitsuaki Shimojo . 2024. Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface
    Reviewed by Shengwen Du , Chang Xu Tiaoyuan Mao
  • 15 July 2024

  • ‘What we found is’ : Pseudo-clefts, cataphora, projection and cohesive chains
    Florine Berthe , Anita Fetzer Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell
  • Functional transition from hear to nonvisual sensory and hearsay evidential categories : A case study of rGyalthang Tibetan
    Hiroyuki Suzuki | FOL 31:1 (2024) pp. 63–89
  • 9 July 2024

  • Eyes do not lie but words do : Evidence from eye-movement monitoring during reading that misuse of evidentiality marking in Turkish is interpreted as deceptive
    Seçkin Arslan , Elif Tutku Tunalı , Yağmur Çetin Özgür Aydın | FOL 31:1 (2024) p. 90
  • The discourse functions of simple copulas in Dzongkha
    Stephen Watters | FOL 31:1 (2024) pp. 34–62
  • 21 June 2024

  • Laure Sarda Ludovica Lena (eds.). 2023. Existential constructions across languages: Forms, meanings and functions
    Reviewed by Yunhan Jia Yicheng Wu
  • 3 June 2024

  • On the co-optation of according to as an evidential in English
    Debra Ziegeler | FOL 31:1 (2024) pp. 16–33
  • 28 May 2024

  • The functions of evidentiality
    Eric Mélac Pascale Leclercq | FOL 31:1 (2024) pp. 1–15
  • 1 May 2024

  • Gerard Steen . 2023. Slowing metaphor down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory
    Reviewed by Yang Gao Deliang Wang
  • 29 April 2024

  • Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi : Assertion, disengagement, and insubordination
    Don Daniels
  • 22 January 2024

  • J. R. Martin , Beatriz Quiroz Pin Wang . 2023. Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese
    Reviewed by Hongmiao Gao
  • 3 January 2024

  • Francisco Yus . 2023. Pragmatics of internet humour
    Reviewed by Ruijia Zhang , Chang Xu Shengbin Du | FOL 31:1 (2024) pp. 109–114
  • 18 December 2023

  • Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung
    Esther Lam | FOL 30:3 (2023) pp. 287–319
  • 12 December 2023

  • Cardinal direction judgment based on the integration of spatial reference frames in different languages
    Qinghong Xu , Ru Ya , Ermiao Zhang , Jie Li , Ruhan Ah Min Li | FOL 30:3 (2023) pp. 320–348
  • 14 November 2023

  • Mira Kim , J. R. Martin , Gi-Hyun Shin Gyung Hee Choi . 2023. Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach
    Reviewed by Meizi Li | FOL 30:3 (2023) pp. 360–365
  • 17 August 2023

  • On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like
    Martin Schweinberger | FOL 30:3 (2023) pp. 255–286
  • 10 July 2023

  • Guy Dove . 2022. Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition
    Reviewed by Jiayin Li | FOL 30:3 (2023) pp. 349–354
  • Jieun Kiaer . 2023. Multimodal communication in young multilingual children: Learning beyond words
    Reviewed by Pan Pan Hongqiang Zhu | FOL 30:3 (2023) pp. 355–359
  • 4 July 2023

  • The function of extra negation : Insights from the Dutch privative construction
    Egbert Fortuin | FOL 30:2 (2023) pp. 209–237
  • 27 June 2023

  • Seeing and knowing : Direct evidentials revisited
    Henrik Bergqvist | FOL 30:2 (2023) pp. 183–208
  • 6 June 2023

  • The genre specifics of English wh-exclamatives
    Daniela Schröder | FOL 30:2 (2023) pp. 159–182
  • 23 May 2023

  • Bingjun Yang . 2022. Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective
    Reviewed by Akila Sellami Baklouti | FOL 30:2 (2023) pp. 249–254
  • 10 May 2023

  • Lihe Huang . 2022. Toward multimodal pragmatics: A Study of illocutionary force in Chinese situated discourse
    Reviewed by Yanhua Cheng | FOL 30:2 (2023) pp. 244–248
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    Svenja Adolphs | University of Nottingham
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