β Scribed by RenΓ© Dirven (editor), VilΓ©m Fried (editor)
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This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical, descriptive and applied issues from a functional point of view, testifying of the very wide-spread and in-depth impact of functionalist thought on the present-day linguistic scene.
List of Authors
Contents
By way of introduction β’ R. Dirven & V. Fried
I. Tunctional Linguistics of Pragueβ and Other Functional Approaches
1. On Prague School Functionalism in Linguistics β’ F. DaneΕ‘
2. M.A.K. Hallidayβs Functional Grammar and the Prague School β’ K. Davidse
3. Some Principles of Functional Grammar β’ S.C. Dik
4. S.C. Dikβs Functional Grammar: A Pilgrimage to Prague? β’ R. Gebruers
II. The Theme-Rheme (Topic-Comment) Issue in the Praguian Tradition
5. On the Delimitation of the Theme in Functional Sentence Perspective β’ J. Firbas
6. Constitutive, Informative and Transformative Models in Modern English Texts and Sentences β’ J. Nosek
7. Prague Functionalism and Topic vs. Focus β’ P. Sgall
8. Functional Sentence Perspective and Intensional Logic β’ A. Svoboda & P. Materna
III. Functionalism as a Psycholinguistic Issue
9. A Functionalist Approach to the Acquisition of Grammar β’ E. Bates & B. MacWhinney
10. Functional Sentence Perspective in Discourse and Language Acquisition β’ W. PaprottΓ© & C. Sinha
11. Processing Strategies: A Psycholinguistic Neofunctionalism? β’ G. D. Prideaux
IV. Functionalism in General Linguistics
12. The Overestimation of Functionalism β’ W. Labov
13. Function and Structure in Linguistic Descriptions β’ W. Haas
14. Communication and Expressivity β’ A. HΓΌbler
15. Functions of Intonation β’ J. Esser
16. Written Language Seen from the Functionalist Angle β’ J. Vachek
V. Functionalism in Linguistic Description
17. Word-Formation and Poetic Language: Non-lexicalized Nominal Compounds in the Poetry of Kevin Crossley-Holland β’ J. Boase-Beier
18. On Acceptable Violations of Parallelism Constraints β’ A. Grosu
19. A Case of Syntactic Mimicry β’ J.D. McCawley
20. Functionalism in Contrastive Analysis and Translation Studies β’ V. Ivir
Index of Names
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