The Dynamics of Language Use

Functional and contrastive perspectives

Editors

Christopher S. Butler

| University of Wales, Swansea

María de los Ángeles Gómez González

| University of Santiago de Compostela

Susana M. Doval-Suárez

| University of Santiago de Compostela

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.140

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Contributors	ix–xvi
Introduction
Functional approaches to language Christopher S. Butler	3–17
On contrastive linguistics: Trends, challenges and problems María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez	19–45
The present book Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez	47–53
Form and function in a cognitive perspective
The relation of grammar to thought Wallace Chafe	57–78
Communicative constructions in English and Spanish Montserrat Martínez Vázquez	79–109
Information Structure
Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary J. Lachlan Mackenzie	113–128
The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts Michael J. Cummings	129–154
On clefting in English and Spanish María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Francisco Gonzálvez-García	155–196
Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish Maite Taboada	197–218
Collocations and formulaic language
Formulaic language: An overview with particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspective Christopher S. Butler	221–242
A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units László Imre Komlósi and Elisabeth Knipf	243–268
Language learning
Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages Paul Meara	271–285
Timing in English and Spanish: An empirical study of the learning of Spanish timing by Anglophone learners Francisco Gutiérrez Díez	287–306
Spanish and English intonation patterns: A perceptual approach to attitudinal meaning Rafael Monroy	307–324
Discourse and culture
Emotivity in narrative discourse: Cross-cultural and cross-gender perspectives Kyoko Takashi and Douglas Wilkerson	327–347
Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse: A contrastive study in English and Spanish Pilar Guerrero Medina	349–369
English consciousness in 19th century Spain Paloma Tejada Caller	371–394
Language index	395
Scholars index	397–401
Subject index	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).

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Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez García & Angela Downing

2014. In The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 247], ► pp. 1 ff.

Scott, Eric M. & Shelley Ching-yu Depner

2016. In Embodiment in Language (II), ► pp. 177 ff.

Taboada, Maite, Susana Doval Suárez & Elsa González Álvarez

2012. Editors’ introduction: Functional and corpus perspectives in contrastive discourse analysis. Linguistics and the Human Sciences 6:1-3

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Pragmatics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005050112