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Directions in functional linguistics / edited by Akio Kamio.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 36.
- Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Functionalism (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Functional linguistics is concerned with the function of language and considers it an essense of human language. Views like this is not particularly new, but rather traditional in the history of linguistics. But today functional linguistics is constituted by a wide range of theoretical and methodological concerns. What unifies them as functional is the concern with discourse. This is quite natural since language can only function in discourse, not as isolated sentences.This collection of papers reflects some of the major approaches and methodologies in contemporary functional linguistics
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contributors; Dispersed Verbal Predicates in Vernacular Written Narrative; Deontic Modality and Conditionality in Discourse: A Cross-linguistic Study of Adult Speech to Young Children; Discourse Motivations for the Core-Oblique Distinction as a Language Universal; Agentivity and Aspect in Japanese: A Functional Perspective; On the Functions of Left-Dislocation in English Discourse; Evidentiality and Some Discourse Characteristics in Japanese; On Japanese Quantifier Floating; The Battle over Anaphoric 'Islands': Syntax vs. Pragmatics
- Structural or Functional Accounts?Index of Names; Index of Subjects
- Notes:
- Papers of a symposium held Dec. 20-21, 1991, at Dokkyo University in Soka City, Japan; the symposium was one of the series of symposia called the Dokkyo Forum which is sponsored annually by Dokkyo University.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-28037-X
- 9786613280374
- 90-272-8194-7
- OCLC:
- 748242117
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