Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing: 85 (Studies in Language Companion Series) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 9027230951 ISBN 13: 9789027230959

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007

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Functional perspectives on grammar and discourse editado por John Benjamins

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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.

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• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9027230951
• ISBN 13: 9789027230959
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
• Herausgeber: Butler Christopher S., Hidalgo Downing Raquel, Lavid-López Julia