Functional approaches to language
By: Edited by Shannon T. Bischoff, Carmen Jany
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 248; Trends in linguistics -- 248.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9783110285215; 9783110285321
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Functionalism (Linguistics); Linguistics
Description: Since the 1970s functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory. Over the past decades it has gained more ground, and we now have a substantial body of literature from various perspectives making a positive impact on the field of linguistics. This collection of papers brings leading scholars in this area together to provide recognition to the impact of functionalism on current linguistic theory highlighting its nature as a leading force within linguistics and beyond and defining its current and future directions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On the intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics / T. Givón; title: Functional explanation and its uses / Esa Itkonen; title: Structure and function : a niche-constructional approach / Peter Harder; title: Toward a thought-based linguistics / Wallace Chafe; title: Changing language / Michael P. Kaschak and Morton Ann Gernsbacher; title: An outline of discourse grammar / Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long; title: Towards an experimental functional linguistics : production / Lise Menn, Cecily Jill Duffield, and Bhuvana Narasimhan.