The Dynamics of Language Use
Functional and contrastive perspectives
Editors
| University of Wales, Swansea
| University of Santiago de Compostela
| University of Santiago de Compostela
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Foreword
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vii
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Contributors
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ix–xvi
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Introduction
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3–17
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19–45
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47–53
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Form and function in a cognitive perspective
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57–78
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79–109
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Information Structure
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113–128
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129–154
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155–196
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197–218
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Collocations and formulaic language
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221–242
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243–268
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Language learning
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271–285
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287–306
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307–324
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Discourse and culture
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327–347
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349–369
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371–394
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Language index
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395
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Scholars index
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397–401
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Subject index
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403–413
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“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).
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General