The Dynamics of Language Use
Functional and contrastive perspectives
Editors
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 140] 2005. xvi, 413 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Foreword | p. vii
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Contributors | pp. ix–xvi
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Introduction
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Functional approaches to languageChristopher S. Butler | pp. 3–17
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On contrastive linguistics: Trends, challenges and problemsMaría de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez | pp. 19–45
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The present bookChristopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez | pp. 47–53
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Form and function in a cognitive perspective
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The relation of grammar to thoughtWallace Chafe | pp. 57–78
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Communicative constructions in English and SpanishMontserrat Martínez Vázquez | pp. 79–109
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Information Structure
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Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentaryJ. Lachlan Mackenzie | pp. 113–128
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The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in textsMichael J. Cummings | pp. 129–154
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On clefting in English and SpanishMaría de los Ángeles Gómez González and Francisco Gonzálvez-García | pp. 155–196
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Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and SpanishMaite Taboada | pp. 197–218
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Collocations and formulaic language
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Formulaic language: An overview with particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspectiveChristopher S. Butler | pp. 221–242
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A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical unitsLászló Imre Komlósi and Elisabeth Knipf | pp. 243–268
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Language learning
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Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languagesPaul Meara | pp. 271–285
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Timing in English and Spanish: An empirical study of the learning of Spanish timing by Anglophone learnersFrancisco Gutiérrez Díez | pp. 287–306
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Spanish and English intonation patterns: A perceptual approach to attitudinal meaningRafael Monroy | pp. 307–324
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Discourse and culture
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Emotivity in narrative discourse: Cross-cultural and cross-gender perspectivesKyoko Takashi and Douglas Wilkerson | pp. 327–347
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Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse: A contrastive study in English and SpanishPilar Guerrero Medina | pp. 349–369
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English consciousness in 19th century SpainPaloma Tejada Caller | pp. 371–394
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Language index | p. 395
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Scholars index | pp. 397–401
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Subject index | pp. 403–413
“Judging from the varied and stimulating content of this anthology, the Third International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (held in September 2003 at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) must have been an exciting experience for theorists and teachers in the field of SLA. This volume-a collection of selected papers from the conference-pays eloquent testimony to the success of the academic gathering.”
Robert S. Burton,
California State University, Chico, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 29:4 (2007).
Cited by (2)
Cited by two other publications
Scott, Eric M. & Shelley Ching-yu Depner
2016. How Do Taiwanese Second-Language Learners Learn English Body Part Metonymy. In Embodiment in Language (II), ► pp. 177 ff. 
Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García & Angela Downing
2014. On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics. In The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 247], ► pp. 1 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General