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Publication details [#58398]

Keizer, M. Evelien. 2014. Context and cognition in Functional Discourse Grammar: What, where and why? Pragmatics 24 (2) : 399–423.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
IPRA
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

The main determinant inducing the use of English active-passive interchange within the Functional Discourse Grammar frame is the complex concept of Speaker’s perspective. It is argued that information from the Contextual Component gets into the Grammatical Component via the Conceptual Component, thence indirectly affecting the selection of a specific grammatical construction.