THE DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE USE. FUNCTIONAL AND CONTRASTIVE PERSPECTIVES
Edited by
Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez-González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez
2005. xvi, 413 pp
USD 150.00 / EUR 125.00
ISBN: 90 272 5383 8
(Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 140)
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Language of publication: English
Date of publication: /2005
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BOOK SYNOPSIS:
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Christopher S. Butler: Functional approaches to language
María de los Ángeles Gómez-González / Susana M. Doval-Suárez: On contrastive linguistics: Trends, challenges and problems
Christopher S. Butler/María de los Ángeles Gómez-González/ Susana M. Doval-Suárez: The present book
Form and function in a cognitive perspective
Wallace Chafe: The relation of grammar to thought
Montserrat Martinez-Vazquez: Communicative constructions in English and Spanish Information Structure
J. Lachlan Mackenzie: Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary
Michael J. Cummings: The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts
María de los Ángeles Gómez-González / Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia: On clefting in English and Spanish
Maite Taboada: Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish
Collocations and Formulaic Language
Christopher S. Butler: Formulaic language: An overview with particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspective
László I. Komlósi / Elisabeth Knipf: A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units
Language Learning
Paul Meara: Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages
Francisco Gutiérrez Díez: Timing in English and Spanish: An empirical study of the learning of Spanish timing by Anglophone learners
Rafael Monroy: Spanish and English intonation patterns: A perceptual approach to attitudinal meaning
Discourse and Culture
Kyoko Takashi and Douglas Wilkerson: Emotivity in narrative discourse: Cross-cultural and cross-gender perspectives
Pilar Guerrero Medina: Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse: A contrastive study in English and Spanish
Paloma Tejada Caller: English consciousness in 19th century Spain
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