Functions of Language
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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.
Latest articles
6 December 2024
Hans J. Ladegaard. 2024. Migrant workers’ narratives of return: Alienation and identity transformations
Reviewed by PraiseGod Aminu
5 December 2024
Rod Ellis, Carsten Roever, Natsuko Shintani & Yan Zhu. 2024. Measuring second language pragmatic competence: A psycholinguistic perspective
Reviewed by Nan Zhang
3 December 2024
Doing things with grammar: Presupposition accommodation across grammatical categories
Maria Khachaturyan, Erika Sandman & Thera Marie Crane | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 166–207
12 November 2024
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen. 2023. System in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Reviewed by Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma
11 November 2024
Monika Bednarek. 2023. Language and characterisation in television series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the
media
Reviewed by Yumin Chen & Chang Yan
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 | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 232–238
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 | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 226–231
15 July 2024
‘What we found is’: Pseudo-clefts, cataphora, projection and cohesive chains
Florine Berthe, Anita Fetzer & Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 142–165
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 | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 220–225
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 | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 214–219
29 April 2024
Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi: Assertion, disengagement, and insubordination
Don Daniels | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 115–141
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 | FOL 31:2 (2024) pp. 208–213
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
28 March 2023
Thu Ngo, Susan Hood, J. R. Martin, Clare Painter, Bradley A. Smith & Michele Zappavigna. 2022. Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: Theory and application
Reviewed by Zhigang Yu | FOL 30:2 (2023) pp. 238–243
Editorial announcement
Martin Hilpert & J. Lachlan Mackenzie | FOL 30:1 (2023) pp. 1–3
14 February 2023
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches
Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer & Evelien Keizer | FOL 30:1 (2023) p. 4
31 January 2023
Continuity in discourse relations
Debopam Das & Markus Egg | FOL 30:1 (2023) pp. 41–66
Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank
Amália Mendes, Deniz Zeyrek & Giedrė Oles̆kevic̆ienė | FOL 30:1 (2023) pp. 67–91
30 January 2023
The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse: A context-based analysis across narrative and argumentative genres
Anita Fetzer & Matthias Klumm | FOL 30:1 (2023) pp. 16–40
Adjustment, mismatches and accommodation of procedural and conceptual meaning: Experimental evidence around connectives
Inés Recio Fernández, Óscar Loureda & Adriana Cruz | FOL 30:1 (2023) pp. 110–135
19 January 2023
Contrast marking variation in Romance and Germanic languages: Crosslinguistic and intralinguistic comparison through task-elicited speech
Cecilia Andorno, Sandra Benazzo & Christine Dimroth | FOL 30:1 (2023) p. 92
29 November 2022
Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination? Evidence from Chinese shuō ‘say’
Haiping Long & Chuanlin Deng | FOL 30:2 (2023) pp. 137–158
1 November 2022
Self-denigration in academic discourse: The case of the Iranian doctoral defense
Nadia Mayahi & Alireza Jalilifar | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 300–327
28 October 2022
Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension: The case of dative constructions in Korean
Hyunwoo Kim & Gyu-Ho Shin | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 274–299
12 September 2022
Exchange Structure: Refinements to the model through a study of multiparty discourse of 4 to 5 year-old children
Margaret Berry & Sarah Jane Mukherjee | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 253–273
J.R. Martin, Karl Maton & Y.J. Doran (eds.). 2020. Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory
Reviewed by Hui Zou & Chenguang Chang | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 350–356
10 June 2022
Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 2022. Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Reviewed by Bernd Heine & Haiping Long | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 338–343
Jef Verschueren. 2022. Complicity in discourse and practice
Reviewed by Bob Hodge | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 333–337
Eva Maagerø, Ruth Mulvad & Elise Seip Tønnessen (eds.). 2022. Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference
Reviewed by Rebekah Wegener | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 344–349
4 March 2022
Diachronic changes of least delicate appraisal in parliamentary and congressional language: An SFL-based computational study
Bandar Alhumaidi A. Almutairi | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 169–198
Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour
Sara Vilar Lluch | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 199–225
3 March 2022
Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives
Malte Rosemeyer | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 1–24
15 February 2022
A contrastive perspective on French and Italian wh-in situ questions: A discourse-pragmatic approach
Davide Garassino | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 25–57
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions
Malte Rosemeyer & María Sol Sansiñena | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 116–141
14 February 2022
Charles Forceville. 2020. Visual and multimodal communication: Applying the relevance principle
Reviewed by Agnieszka Piskorska | FOL 29:3 (2022) pp. 328–332
11 February 2022
Alternatives to QUD: Alternatives to questions
Pavel Ozerov | FOL 29:1 (2022) p. 86
Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long. 2021. The rise of discourse markers
Reviewed by Karin Aijmer | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 247–251
8 February 2022
Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (eds.). 2020. The Oxford handbook of language prosody
Reviewed by Gerard O’Grady | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 237–246
2 February 2022
Helen Caple, Changpeng Huan & Monika Bednarek. 2020. Multimodal news analysis across cultures
Reviewed by Peipei Jia | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 232–236
1 February 2022
On the discourse pragmatics of German wh-headlines: Diachronic perspectives
Rita Finkbeiner & Robert Külpmann | FOL 29:1 (2022) pp. 58–85
23 September 2021
Hongming Zhang & Youyong Qian (eds.). 2019. Prosodic studies: Challenges and prospects
Reviewed by Chen Ou & Kaijing Zhao | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 226–231
13 July 2021
The pragmatism of drawing context networks: Social hierarchy and social distance as dimensions of Tenor
David G. Butt, Alison Rotha Moore, Canzhong Wu & John Cartmill | FOL 28:3 (2021) pp. 260–290
19 May 2021
Understanding context in computer-mediated communication: A focus on Danmaku discourse
Jennifer Yameng Liang | FOL 28:3 (2021) pp. 342–367
7 April 2021
Another turn of the screw on the history of the reaction object construction
Tamara Bouso & Pablo Ruano San Segundo | FOL 28:2 (2021) pp. 208–231
Context of situation and the role of language
Wendy L. Bowcher | FOL 28:3 (2021) pp. 315–341
From dynamic modal to conditional protasis connective: Evidence from Chinese néng ‘be able to’
Yueh Hsin Kuo | FOL 29:2 (2022) pp. 143–168
Modelling interfaces with context in SFL: Stratification, instantiation, metafunctions
Miriam Taverniers | FOL 28:3 (2021) pp. 291–314
Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Principles and parameters
Tom Bartlett & Wendy L. Bowcher | FOL 28:3 (2021) pp. 243–259
20 January 2021
Discourse markers as a lens to variation across speech and writing: Egyptian Arabic yaʕni ‘it means’ as a case study
Michal Marmorstein | FOL 28:2 (2021) pp. 153–182
4 November 2020
On the formation of a conjecturing clause-taking predicate in Modern Chinese: A conjoining account of huaiyi
Haiping Long, Fang Wu, Francesco Ursini & Zhijun Qin | FOL 28:2 (2021) pp. 183–207
6 July 2020
Nominalisations in scientific English: A tristratal perspective
Jing Hao | FOL 27:2 (2020) pp. 143–173
Interpersonal functions of interjections: A Systemic Functional perspective
Yi Jing | FOL 28:1 (2021) p. 81
Competing ditransitive constructions in Enets
Olesya Khanina & Andrey Shluinsky | FOL 27:3 (2020) pp. 247–279
Give as a light verb
Elena Martínez Caro & Jorge Arús-Hita | FOL 27:3 (2020) pp. 280–306
Presupposed evaluation in environmental argumentative discourse
Gabrina Pounds | FOL 28:1 (2021) pp. 27–54
A systemic functional study of modal verbs in the Chinese clause: Their clausal positions and functions
Shu Yang | FOL 28:1 (2021) pp. 1–26
30 June 2020
Negation in complement clauses of fear-verbs
Nina Dobrushina | FOL 28:2 (2021) pp. 121–152
On the status of wh-exclamatives in English
Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck & Tania Kuteva | FOL 27:2 (2020) pp. 207–233
The role of (historical) pragmatics in the use of response particles: The case of French
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | FOL 27:3 (2020) pp. 307–339
Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk & Floris Roelofsen. 2019. Inquisitive semantics
Reviewed by Vít Punčochář | FOL 28:2 (2021) pp. 232–236
19 June 2020
Wendan Li. 2018. Grounding in Chinese written narrative discourse
Reviewed by Xiuling Xu | FOL 27:3 (2020) pp. 373–380
16 June 2020
Practices of indexing discrepant assumptions with German ich dachte (‘I thought’) in talk-in-interaction
Arnulf Deppermann & Silke Reineke | FOL 27:2 (2020) pp. 113–142
Interacting voices structure a text: A quantitative investigation of dialogic elements across structural units in the introductory chapters of history theses
Tomoko Sawaki | FOL 27:2 (2020) pp. 174–206
5 June 2020
Geoff Thompson, Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine & David Schönthal (eds.). 2019. The Cambridge handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
Reviewed by Richard Hudson | FOL 28:1 (2021) pp. 115–119
Vera Benninghoven. 2018. The functions of ‘general nouns’: Theory and corpus analysis
Reviewed by Charlotte Maekelberghe | FOL 28:1 (2021) pp. 109–114
Talmy Givón. 2017. The story of zero
Reviewed by Li Xie | FOL 27:2 (2020) pp. 234–245
4 June 2020
More than just a modal particle: The enclitic =q’al in Sanzhi Dargwa
Diana Forker | FOL 27:3 (2020) pp. 340–372
How do speakers and hearers disambiguate multi-functional words? The case of well
Christoph Rühlemann & Stefan Th. Gries | FOL 28:1 (2021) pp. 55–80
27 May 2020
Annabelle Lukin. 2019. War and its ideologies: A social-semiotic theory and description
Reviewed by Tom Bartlett | FOL 28:2 (2021) pp. 237–242
15 April 2020
Recycling through perspective persistence in Monsang (Trans-Himalayan): Reconstructing the desiderative from a reported intentionality construction
Linda Konnerth | FOL 27:1 (2020) pp. 55–77
Logophoricity and shifts of perspective: New facts and a new account
Tatiana Nikitina | FOL 27:1 (2020) pp. 78–99
Perspective persistence and irregular perspective shift: Mismatches in form-function pairings
Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens & María Sol Sansiñena | FOL 27:1 (2020) pp. 1–6
Constructional effects of indirect evidential marking in Harakmbut
An Van linden | FOL 27:1 (2020) p. 7
Evidentials and their pivot in Tibetic and neighboring Himalayan languages
Marius Zemp | FOL 27:1 (2020) pp. 29–54
Tom Bartlett & Gerard O’Grady (eds.). 2017. The Routledge handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
Reviewed by Zhigang Yu, Enhua Guo & Zhanting Bu | FOL 27:1 (2020) pp. 100–112
25 November 2019
Evidentiality in adverbs of manner of perceivability: The case of English manifestly, noticeably, patently and visibly
Marta Carretero | FOL 26:3 (2019) pp. 275–307
The semantics of evaluational adjectives: Perspectives from Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Appraisal
Cliff Goddard, Maite Taboada & Radoslava Trnavac | FOL 26:3 (2019) pp. 308–342
Language patterns and attitude revisited: Adjective patterns, Attitude and Appraisal
Hang Su & Susan Hunston | FOL 26:3 (2019) pp. 343–371
Lawrence N. Berlin, Elda Weizman & Anita Fetzer (eds.). The dynamics of political discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups
Reviewed by Ying Tong & Chaoqun Xie | FOL 26:3 (2019) pp. 372–380
2 August 2019
Two distinct sources – one target: A diachronic contrastive study of the grammaticalization of German scheinen and English seem
Gabriele Diewald & Katerina Stathi | FOL 26:2 (2019) pp. 177–215
A diachronic corpus study of prenominal zo’n ‘so a’ in Dutch: Pathways and (inter)subjectification
Daniël Van Olmen | FOL 26:2 (2019) pp. 216–247
The development of the Chinese copula shì construction: A diachronic constructional perspective
Fangqiong Zhan & Elizabeth Closs Traugott | FOL 26:2 (2019) pp. 139–176
Donna R. Miller & Paul Bayley (eds.). 2016. Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, text and discursive context
Reviewed by Tom Bartlett | FOL 26:2 (2019) pp. 248–257
Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani & Anne-Sylvie Horlacher (eds.). 2015. Time and emergence in grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction
Reviewed by Yinmei Li & Yi’na Wang | FOL 26:2 (2019) pp. 258–265
Elda Weizman & Anita Fetzer (eds.). 2015. Follow-ups in political discourse: Explorations across contexts and discourse domains
Reviewed by Chaoqun Xie & Ying Tong | FOL 26:2 (2019) pp. 266–274
From the editors
FOL 26:2 (2019) pp. 137–138
27 May 2019
In praise of text analysis: An essay in honour of Margaret Berry’s 80th birthday and the 25th anniversary of Functions of Language
Elissa Asp | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 35–42
Does functional linguistics have a ‘fundamental unity’? Doing things with words in three structural-functional theories
Christopher S. Butler | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 64–85
Textual analysis: Why do it, and where does it take you?
Eirian Davies | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 43–48
English tag questions eliciting knowledge or action: A comparison of the speech function and exchange structure models
Ditte Kimps, Kristin Davidse & Gerard O’Grady* | FOL 26:1 (2019) p. 86
The evolutionary origins of interpersonal grammar
William B. McGregor | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 112–135
The author and the text in radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar, or why historical linguists have started analysing text again
Dirk Noël | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 56–63
Do we need more of the same? Some reflections on text analytical research
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 49–55
What makes a text a text?
Rebekah Wegener | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 28–34
Introduction
Kristin Davidse, Lise Fontaine & Miriam Taverniers | FOL 26:1 (2019) p. 5
Reflections on Functions of Language
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 13–14
Tributes to Margaret Berry
Hillary Hillier, Robin Fawcett & Sheena Gardner | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 15–27
Preface
Monika Bednarek, Lobke Ghesquière, Hilde Hasselgård, Martin Hilpert & J. Lachlan Mackenzie | FOL 26:1 (2019) pp. 1–4
2 November 2018
A framework for analyzing evaluative language in historical discourse
Gordon Myskow | FOL 25:3 (2018) pp. 335–362
Variation between modal adverbs in British English: The cases of maybe and perhaps
Daisuke Suzuki | FOL 25:3 (2018) pp. 392–412
Adapting to survive: The English absolute and its new functional niche
Nikki van de Pol | FOL 25:3 (2018) pp. 363–391
Sabine De Knop & Gaëtanelle Gilquin (eds.). 2016. Applied Construction Grammar
Reviewed by Karin Madlener | FOL 25:3 (2018) pp. 413–422
Daniel Van Olmen, Hubert Cuyckens & Lobke Ghesquière (eds.). 2017. Aspects of grammaticalization: (Inter)Subjectification and directionality
Reviewed by Steve Nicolle | FOL 25:3 (2018) pp. 429–438
Heike Pichler (ed.). 2016. Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English
Reviewed by Arja Nurmi | FOL 25:3 (2018) pp. 423–428
19 October 2018
A stepwise method for annotating appraisal
Matteo Fuoli | FOL 25:2 (2018) pp. 229–258
Paratactic negation revisited: The case of the Finnish verb epäillä
Jutta Salminen | FOL 25:2 (2018) pp. 259–288
Flemish Sign Language development: A case study on Deaf mother – deaf child interactions
Beatrijs Wille, Kimberley Mouvet, Myriam Vermeerbergen & Mieke Van Herreweghe | FOL 25:2 (2018) pp. 289–322
Christoph Schubert & Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (eds.). 2016. Variational text linguistics: Revisiting register in English
Reviewed by Peter Crosthwaite | FOL 25:2 (2018) pp. 328–334
Wendy L. Bowcher & Jennifer Yameng Liang (eds.). 2016. Society in language, language in society: Essays in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan
Reviewed by Jonathan Webster | FOL 25:2 (2018) pp. 323–327
A tribute to M. A. K. Halliday (1925–2018)
Kristin Davidse | FOL 25:2 (2018) pp. 205–228
10 August 2018
Interpersonal grammar of Tagalog: A Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective
J. R. Martin & Priscilla Cruz | FOL 25:1 (2018) pp. 54–96
Negotiating interpersonal meanings: Reasoning about mood
Beatriz Quiroz | FOL 25:1 (2018) pp. 135–163
Sister, shall I tell you? Enacting social relations in a kinship community
David Rose | FOL 25:1 (2018) p. 97
Interpersonal grammar of Korean: A Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective
Gi-Hyun Shin | FOL 25:1 (2018) pp. 20–53
Grammatical metaphor and grammaticalization: The case of metaphors of modality
Miriam Taverniers | FOL 25:1 (2018) pp. 164–204
Interpersonal meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives
J. R. Martin | FOL 25:1 (2018) p. 2
Obituary: M. A. K. Halliday (1925–2018)
FOL 25:1 (2018) p. 1
9 February 2018
Measuring iconicity: A quantitative study of lexical and analytic causatives in British English
Natalia Levshina | FOL 24:3 (2017) pp. 319–347
Modern Chinese confirmative shi
: Auxiliary or adverb?
Haiping Long & Pengfei Kuang | FOL 24:3 (2017) pp. 294–318
Bridging boundaries across genre traditions: A Systemic Functional account of generic patterns in biodata
Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru | FOL 24:3 (2017) pp. 259–293
Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer & Matthew Brook O’Donnell. 2016. Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and processing: Cognitive and corpus investigations of Construction
Grammar
Reviewed by Annette Fahrner | FOL 24:3 (2017) pp. 362–368
Paul Baker & Jesse Egbert. 2016. Triangulating methodological approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research
Reviewed by Feng (Robin) Wang | FOL 24:3 (2017) pp. 357–361
Christopher Hart & Piotr Cap (eds.). 2014. Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies
Reviewed by Ma Weilin | FOL 24:3 (2017) pp. 348–356
Referees of Volume 24
FOL 24:3 (2017) p. 369
10 November 2017
The modification of compound nouns by three adjectives
Thomas Berg | FOL 24:2 (2017) pp. 139–165
Patterns of (inter)subjectivity: Asymmetries for Glaswegian peripheral but
Carolin Hofmockel | FOL 24:2 (2017) pp. 166–195
We’re talking about semantics here: Axiological condensation in the South African parliament
Ian Siebörger & Ralph Adendorff | FOL 24:2 (2017) pp. 196–233
Jonathan J. Webster (ed.). 2015. The Bloomsbury Companion to M.A.K. Halliday
Reviewed by Wei He & Ruby Rong Wei | FOL 24:2 (2017) pp. 234–243
Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro. 2014. A multimodal analysis of picture books for children: A Systemic Functional approach
Reviewed by Peipei Jia | FOL 24:2 (2017) pp. 249–257
Gaëlle Planchenault. 2015. Voices in the media: Performing French linguistic otherness
Reviewed by Kunkun Zhang & Feifei Liu | FOL 24:2 (2017) pp. 244–248
4 September 2017
Creative resonance and misalignment stance: Achieving distance in one Hebrew interaction
Gonen Dori-Hacohen | FOL 24:1 (2017) pp. 16–40
Parallelisms and affectivity in the negotiation of optimal social proximity: Examples from Brazilian Portuguese
Rosália Dutra | FOL 24:1 (2017) pp. 41–64
The power of engagement: Stance-taking, dialogic resonance and the construction of intersubjectivity
Bracha Nir & Elisabeth Zima | FOL 24:1 (2017) p. 3
Resonance as a resource for stance-taking in narratives
Bracha Nir | FOL 24:1 (2017) p. 94
Stance management in oral narrative: The role of discourse marker well and resonance
Tomoko I. Sakita | FOL 24:1 (2017) pp. 65–93
Donna Bain Butler. 2015. Developing International EFL/ESL Scholarly Writers
Reviewed by Andreas Eriksson | FOL 24:1 (2017) pp. 128–136
Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski & Helena Sorva (eds.). 2014. Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives
Reviewed by Yi’na Wang & Siqi Lyu | FOL 24:1 (2017) pp. 121–127
Changes of personnel at Functions of Language
FOL 24:1 (2017) pp. 1–2
16 February 2017
Measuring the degree of near-synonymy of Spanish verbs of putting: A multivariate corpus analysis of poner and meter
Marie Comer, Renata Enghels & Clara Vanderschueren | FOL 23:3 (2016) pp. 279–304
Processes and verbs of doing, in the brain: Theoretical implications for Systemic Functional Linguistics
Adolfo M. García & Agustín Ibáñez | FOL 23:3 (2016) pp. 305–335
Evaluative prosodies in academic quality audit reports: An exploratory study
Victor Ho | FOL 23:3 (2016) pp. 336–360
Impersonal clauses in Chinese
Yong Wang | FOL 23:3 (2016) pp. 361–383
Nikolas Gisborne & Willem B. Hollmann (eds.). 2014. Theory and data in Cognitive Linguistics
Reviewed by Anna Endresen | FOL 23:3 (2016) pp. 391–399
Evelien Keizer. 2015. A Functional Discourse Grammar of English
Reviewed by María de los Ángeles Gómez González | FOL 23:3 (2016) pp. 400–409
Nancy Bell. 2015. We are not amused. Failed humor in interaction
Reviewed by Anna-Brita Stenström | FOL 23:3 (2016) pp. 384–390
2016
Referees of Volume 23
FOL 23:3 p. 410
6 October 2016
Explicating the English lexicon of ‘doing and happening’
Cliff Goddard & Anna Wierzbicka | FOL 23:2 (2016) pp. 214–256
The grammatical potential of co-speech gesture: A Functional Discourse Grammar perspective
Kasper Kok | FOL 23:2 (2016) pp. 149–178
Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity: Integrating two Cognitive-Functional theories
Karolina Krawczak | FOL 23:2 (2016) pp. 179–213
Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Graeme Trousdale. 2013. Constructionalization and constructional changes
Reviewed by Judith Huber | FOL 23:2 (2016) pp. 264–270
Christopher Butler & Francisco Gonzálvez-García. 2014. Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space
Reviewed by Arne Lohmann | FOL 23:2 (2016) pp. 271–278
Carlos A. M. Gouveia & Marta Filipe Alexandre (eds.). 2013. Languages, Metalanguages, Modalities, Cultures: Functional and socio-discursive perspectives
Reviewed by Quanzhi Wang | FOL 23:2 (2016) pp. 257–263
16 June 2016
(A few) psycholinguistic properties of the NP
Carlos Acuña-Fariña | FOL 23:1 (2016) pp. 120–141
Multiple shifts: New views on pathways and mechanisms of grammaticalization in the English noun phrase
Tine Breban & Caroline Gentens | FOL 23:1 (2016) pp. 40–59
Introduction
Kristin Davidse | FOL 23:1 (2016) p. 9
The Great Complement Shift revisited: The constructionalization of ACC-ing gerundives
Teresa Fanego | FOL 23:1 (2016) p. 84
From nominal to verbal gerunds: A referential typology
Lauren Fonteyn | FOL 23:1 (2016) pp. 60–83
An inspiring advocate for Systemic-Functional Linguistics: Geoff Thompson (1947–2015)
Susan Hunston | FOL 23:1 (2016) pp. 1–8
Loose apposition: A construction-based analysis
Frank Van Eynde & Jong-Bok Kim | FOL 23:1 (2016) pp. 17–39
John Flowerdew & Richard W. Forest. 2015. Signalling Nouns in English: A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach
Reviewed by Kevin Jiang | FOL 23:1 (2016) pp. 142–147
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