Functionalism in Linguistics

Editors

René Dirven †

Vilém Fried

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This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical, descriptive and applied issues from a functional point of view, testifying of the very wide-spread and in-depth impact of functionalist thought on the present-day linguistic scene.

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 20] 1987. xviii, 489 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/llsee.20

Table of Contents

By way of introduction René Dirven † and Vilém Fried	ix
I. ‘Functional liguistics of Prague’ and other functional approaches
On Prague school functionalism in linguistics Frantisek Danes	3
M.A.K. Halliday’s functional grammar and the Prague school Kristin Davidse	39
Some principles of functional grammar Simon C. Dik	81
S.C. Dik’s functional grammar: A pilgrimage to Prague? Rudi Gebruers	101
II. The theme-rheme (tpoic-comment) issue in the Praguian tradition
On the delimitation of the theme in functional sentence perspective Jan Firbas	137
Constitutive, informative and transformative models in modern English texts and sentences Jiří Nosek	157
Prague functionalism an topic vs. focus Petr Sgall	169
Functional sentence perspective and intensional logic Aleš Svoboda and Pavel Materna	191
A functionalist approach to the acquisition of grammar Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney	209
Functional sentence perspective in discourse and language acquisition Wolf Paprotté and Chris Sinha	265
Processing strategies: A psycholinguistic neofunctionalism? Gary D. Prideaux	297
IV. Functionalism in general linguistics
The overestimation of functionalism William Labov	311
Function and structure in linguistic descriptions W. Haas	333
Communication and expressivity Axel Hübler	357
Functions of intonation Jürgen Esser	381
Written language seen from the functionalist angle Josef Vachek	395
V. Functionalism in linguistic description
Word-formation and poetic language: Non-lexicalized nominal compounds in the poetry of Kevin Crossley-Holland Jean Boase-Beier	409
On acceptable violations of parallelism constraints Alexander Grosu	425
A case of syntactic mimicry James D. McCawley	459
Functionalism in contrastive analysis and translation studies Vladimir Ivir	471
Index	483

“The volume clearly demonstrates the correctness of the editor's contention that functionalist thinking continues to have a significant (i.e. essential and inextricable) impact on current linguistics. ...its relevance to current work in a period of theoretical ferment makes it higly recommended reading.”

Douglas Walker, Language 65/3 (1989).

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 87008086 | Marc record