Functional approaches to language

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Since the 1970s functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory. Over the past decades it has gained more ground, and we now have a substantial body of literature from various perspectives making a positive impact on the field of linguistics. This collection of papers brings leading scholars in this area together to provide recognition to the impact of functionalism on current linguistic theory highlighting its nature as a lea…

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Full title :Functional approaches to language / edited by Shannon T. Bischoff, Carmen Jany.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 251 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783110285215, 3110285215, 3110285339, 9783110285338, 3110285320, 9783110285321, 9783110484762, 3110484765
oclc:ocn859745260
LC Classification:P147
Dewey Decimal:410.1/8

On the intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics / T. Givón -- Functional explanation and its uses / Esa Itkonen -- Structure and function : a niche-constructional approach / Peter Harder -- Toward a thought-based linguistics / Wallace Chafe -- Changing language / Michael P. Kaschak and Morton Ann Gernsbacher -- An outline of discourse grammar / Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long -- Towards an experimental functional linguistics : production / Lise Menn, Cecily Jill Duffield, and Bhuvana Narasimhan.

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Conference papers and proceedings Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) Functionalism (Linguistics) Functionalisme Funktionalism (språkvetenskap) Funktionalismus Gengogaku linguistics Linguïstiek Linguistique