The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse

Applications and implications

Editors

María de los Ángeles Gómez González | University of Santiago de Compostela

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez | University of La Rioja

Francisco Gonzálvez-García | University of Almeria

Angela Downing | University Complutense of Madrid

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Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share two crucial assumptions: (i) form is not independent of meaning/function or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and explanation need to take into account the communicative function of language. This volume offers readers interested in functional linguistics a selected sample of studies that jointly prove the efficacy of the analytical tools and procedures broadly accepted within the functionalist tradition in order to investigate language and discourse, with special focus on key pragmatic/discourse notions such as contextualization, grammaticalisation, reference, politeness, (in-)directness, discourse markers, speech acts, subjective evaluation and sentiment analysis in texts, among others. In addition, this volume offers specific corpus-based techniques for the objective contextualisation of linguistic data, which is crucial given the central role allotted to context in both functional linguistics and pragmatics/discourse analysis.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 247] 2014. viii, 292 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.247

Table of Contents

Contributors | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing | pp. 1–16

I. Methods in the analysis of language and discourse

Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy: The challenge of hybridity

Alison Wray | pp. 19–36

A method of analysing recontextualisation in the communication of science

John Connolly | pp. 37–56

Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project: Issues and problems

Julia Lavid, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús-Hita, Lara Moratón and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla | pp. 57–86

Form and function in evaluative language: The use of corpora to identify context valence shifters in a linguistically-motivated sentiment analysis system

Antonio Moreno Ortiz and Chantal Perez Hernandez | pp. 87–110

Life before Nation: Bibliometrics and L2 vocabulary studies in 1982

Paul Meara | pp. 111–130

II. Pragmatics and grammar

A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions

Pilar Guerrero Medina | pp. 133–148

How did we think?

Karolien Janssens and Jan Nuyts | pp. 149–168

The adverb truly in Present-Day English

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Miriam Taverniers | pp. 169–186

III. Current trends in pragmatics and discourse analysis

Nominal reference and the dynamics of discourse: A cognitive-functional approach

Kristin Davidse | pp. 189–208

‘Pragmatic punting’ and prosody: Evidence from corpora

Jesús Romero-Trillo | pp. 209–222

Besides as a connective

Mike Hannay, Elena Martínez Caro and J. Lachlan Mackenzie | pp. 223–242

Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts: A sketch of a research problem

Michael Stubbs | pp. 243–260

Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish

Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Angela Downing | pp. 261–284

Name index | pp. 285–288

Term index | pp. 289–292

“The volume is highly valuable precisely in the depth and breadth of approaches provided. The more theoretical chapters by Wray and Stubbs are, in my view, brilliant, sketching out needed and promising areas of research for future scholars. [...] The very solid chapters [...] provide clarity of theoretical perspectives and depth of application and analysis, serving to effectively demonstrate the relatedness of pragmatics and functional perspectives in illuminating how language functions in use.”

Anne McCabe, Saint Louis University, in Functions of Language Vol. 22:3 (2015)

“This volume is a valuable collection which contributes substantially to the existing literature of functional linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics, and as such it is highly recommended.”

Hang Su, Beihang University, in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 21:4 (2016).

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2016. Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Functions of Language 23:2 ► pp. 179 ff.

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2021. Challenges of releasing audio material for spoken data: The case of the London-Lund Corpus 2. Research in Corpus Linguistics 9:1 ► pp. 35 ff.

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