Functionalism in Linguistics

Editors

René Dirven †

Vilém Fried

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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.

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 20] 1987. xviii, 489 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/llsee.20

Table of Contents

By way of introduction

René Dirven and Vilém Fried | p. ix

I. ‘Functional liguistics of Prague’ and other functional approaches

On Prague school functionalism in linguistics

Frantisek Danes | p. 3

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

Kristin Davidse | p. 39

Some principles of functional grammar

Simon C. Dik | p. 81

S.C. Dik’s functional grammar: A pilgrimage to Prague?

Rudi Gebruers | p. 101

II. The theme-rheme (tpoic-comment) issue in the Praguian tradition

On the delimitation of the theme in functional sentence perspective

Jan Firbas | p. 137

Constitutive, informative and transformative models in modern English texts and sentences

Jiří Nosek | p. 157

Prague functionalism an topic vs. focus

Petr Sgall | p. 169

Functional sentence perspective and intensional logic

Aleš Svoboda and Pavel Materna | p. 191

A functionalist approach to the acquisition of grammar

Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney | p. 209

Functional sentence perspective in discourse and language acquisition

Wolf Paprotté and Chris Sinha | p. 265

Processing strategies: A psycholinguistic neofunctionalism?

Gary D. Prideaux | p. 297

IV. Functionalism in general linguistics

The overestimation of functionalism

William Labov | p. 311

Function and structure in linguistic descriptions

W. Haas | p. 333

Communication and expressivity

Axel Hübler | p. 357

Functions of intonation

Jürgen Esser | p. 381

Written language seen from the functionalist angle

Josef Vachek | p. 395

V. Functionalism in linguistic description

Word-formation and poetic language: Non-lexicalized nominal compounds in the poetry of Kevin Crossley-Holland

Jean Boase-Beier | p. 409

On acceptable violations of parallelism constraints

Alexander Grosu | p. 425

A case of syntactic mimicry

James D. McCawley | p. 459

Functionalism in contrastive analysis and translation studies

Vladimir Ivir | p. 471

Index | p. 483

“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.”

Douglas Walker, Language 65/3 (1989).

Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 87008086