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Butler, Christopher S., Julia Lavid and Raquel Hidalgo Downing, eds. 2007. Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing. (Studies in Language Companion Series 85). John Benjamins. xxx+481 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
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This volume, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday’s division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification, formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic productions.
Articles in this volume
Stanchev, Svilen B. Pragmatics, word order and cross-reference: Some issues with pronominal clitics in Bulgarian. 233–256 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Jordan, Michael P. Interactive solution-problems: A set of structures in general and scientific writing. 279–300 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Lavid, Julia. Global and local attention in task-oriented conversation: An empirical investigation. 313–326 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Hidalgo Downing, Laura and Raquel Hidalgo Downing. Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken Spanish. 327–348 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Vandelanotte, Lieven. Mister so-called X: Discourse functions and subjectification of so-called. 359–394 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)