Exploring functional-cognitive space

Exploring functional-cognitive space

by Butler, Christopher Gonzálvez-Garcia, Francisco

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This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional "functional-cognitive space" within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The analysis covers a broad range of 16 such approaches, with some additional references to Chomskyan minimalism, and is based on 58 questionnaire items, each rated by 29 experts on particular models for the…

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  • Full title :Exploring functional-cognitive space / Christopher S. Butler, Swansea University ; Francisco Gonzálvez-García ; University of Almeria.

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This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional "functional-cognitive space" within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The analysis covers a broad range of 16 such approaches, with some additional references to Chomskyan minimalism, and is based on 58 questionnaire items, each rated by 29 experts on particular models for their importance in the model concerned. These ratings are analysed statistically to reveal overall patt

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  • Publication Date:2014.

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:9789027270221, 9027270228
  • oclc:ocn887215412
  • LC Classification:P37.5.S65
  • Dewey Decimal:410.1/8

Table of Contents

Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for models; Figures and tables ; Introduction; 1.1 Aims of the book; 1.2 What's in a label?; 1.2.1 Functional-cognitive space; 1.2.2 Approaches, models, theories; 1.2.3 Functionalist, formalist, cognitivist, constructionist and usage-based linguistics; 1.3 The story so far; 1.3.1 Previous work on relationships between functionalism and Chomskyan generative grammar.

1.3.2 Previous work on relationships between functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches1.4 Choice of models for investigation; 1.5 Methodological principles; 1.6 The structure of the rest of the book; Profiles; 2.1 Functional Discourse Grammar; 2.2 Role and Reference Grammar; 2.3 Systemic Functional Linguistics; 2.4 The work of Talmy Givón; 2.5 Interactional Linguistics and its antecedents in Emergent Grammar; 2.6 Word Grammar; 2.7 The Columbia School; 2.8 Cognitive Grammar; 2.9 Construction Grammar(s); 2.9.1 Sign-Based Construction Grammar.

2.9.2 Cognitive Construction Grammar2.9.3 Embodied Construction Grammar; 2.9.4 Frame-semantic Construction Grammar; 2.9.5 Radical Cons…

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