Book Announcement: The Dynamics of Language Use

[Mª Ángeles Gómez González]

New publication from John Benjamins Publishing Company
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 Forumlaic 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


OF INTEREST TO:
Students and scholars of Functinal Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Language
Acquisition, Cultural Studies and Linguistics in general; academic libraries
and Institutes.
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Secretary of Department and PhD Programme Coordinator
English Department
University of Santiago de Compostela
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E-15782 Santiago de Compostela. Spain.
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