18.2652, Books: General Linguistics: Butler, Hidalgo Downing, Lavid (Eds)

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Subject: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: Butler, Hidalgo
Downing, Lavid (Eds)

 

	
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Title: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse 
Subtitle: In honour of Angela Downing 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 85  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2085 


Editor: Christopher S. Butler
Editor: Raquel Hidalgo Downing
Editor: Julia Lavid

Hardback: ISBN: 9027230951  Pages: 512 Price: U.S. $ 169.00


Abstract:

This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a
broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the
general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension,
integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages
(Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers
are sequenced according to Halliday’s division into ideational, textual and
interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas,
including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure
and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing
skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in
conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification,
formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use
of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic
productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless
detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics. 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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