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Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse
In honour of Angela Downing
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Main description: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 structu...
Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- Contributors
- Editorial introduction
- Publications of Angela Downing
- Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product
- Towards a cognitive-functional model of text comprehension
- Towards an integrational approachin linguistics
- Expressing past habit in English and Swedish.
- Do cognate and circumstantial complements of intransitive verbs form one 6;Range'?
- The unconscious, irresponsible construction in Modern Icelandic
- Modelling 6;selection' between referents in the English nominal group
- Problems in NP structure
- Double-possessive nominalizations in English
- Pragmatics, word order and cross-reference
- Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills
- Interactive solution-problems
- The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead
- Global and local attention in task-oriented conversation
- Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken Spanish
- Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues
- Mister so-called X
- 6;Sorry to muddy the waters'
- The discourse functionality of adjectival and adverbial epistemic expressions
- Modality across World Englishes
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.
Table of contents:
- Contributors
- Editorial introduction
- Publications of Angela Downing
- Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product
- Towards a cognitive-functional model of text comprehension
- Towards an integrational approachin linguistics
- Expressing past habit in English and Swedish.
- Do cognate and circumstantial complements of intransitive verbs form one 6;Range'?
- The unconscious, irresponsible construction in Modern Icelandic
- Modelling 6;selection' between referents in the English nominal group
- Problems in NP structure
- Double-possessive nominalizations in English
- Pragmatics, word order and cross-reference
- Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills
- Interactive solution-problems
- The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead
- Global and local attention in task-oriented conversation
- Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken Spanish
- Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues
- Mister so-called X
- 6;Sorry to muddy the waters'
- The discourse functionality of adjectival and adverbial epistemic expressions
- Modality across World Englishes