Functionalism in Linguistics
Editors
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
-
By way of introductionRené Dirven and Vilém Fried | p. ix
-
I. ‘Functional liguistics of Prague’ and other functional approaches
-
On Prague school functionalism in linguisticsFrantisek Danes | p. 3
-
M.A.K. Halliday’s functional grammar and the Prague schoolKristin Davidse | p. 39
-
Some principles of functional grammarSimon 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 perspectiveJan Firbas | p. 137
-
Constitutive, informative and transformative models in modern English texts and sentencesJiří Nosek | p. 157
-
Prague functionalism an topic vs. focusPetr Sgall | p. 169
-
Functional sentence perspective and intensional logicAleš Svoboda and Pavel Materna | p. 191
-
A functionalist approach to the acquisition of grammarElizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney | p. 209
-
Functional sentence perspective in discourse and language acquisitionWolf Paprotté and Chris Sinha | p. 265
-
Processing strategies: A psycholinguistic neofunctionalism?Gary D. Prideaux | p. 297
-
IV. Functionalism in general linguistics
-
The overestimation of functionalismWilliam Labov | p. 311
-
Function and structure in linguistic descriptionsW. Haas | p. 333
-
Communication and expressivityAxel Hübler | p. 357
-
Functions of intonationJürgen Esser | p. 381
-
Written language seen from the functionalist angleJosef Vachek | p. 395
-
V. Functionalism in linguistic description
-
Word-formation and poetic language: Non-lexicalized nominal compounds in the poetry of Kevin Crossley-HollandJean Boase-Beier | p. 409
-
On acceptable violations of parallelism constraintsAlexander Grosu | p. 425
-
A case of syntactic mimicryJames D. McCawley | p. 459
-
Functionalism in contrastive analysis and translation studiesVladimir 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
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 87008086