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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968472003321

Titolo

Directions in functional linguistics / / edited by Akio Kamio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997

ISBN

1-283-28037-X

9786613280374

90-272-8194-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 36

Altri autori (Persone)

KamioAkio <1942->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers of a symposium held Dec. 20-21, 1991, at Dokkyo University in Soka City, Japan; the symposium was one of the series of symposia called the Dokkyo Forum which is sponsored annually by Dokkyo University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contributors; Dispersed Verbal Predicates in Vernacular Written Narrative; Deontic Modality and Conditionality in Discourse: A Cross-linguistic Study of Adult Speech to Young Children; Discourse Motivations for the Core-Oblique Distinction as a Language Universal; Agentivity and Aspect in Japanese: A Functional Perspective; On the Functions of Left-Dislocation in English Discourse; Evidentiality and Some Discourse Characteristics in Japanese; On Japanese Quantifier Floating; The Battle over Anaphoric 'Islands': Syntax vs. Pragmatics

Structural or Functional Accounts?Index of Names; Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Functional linguistics is concerned with the function of language and considers it an essense of human language. Views like this is not particularly new, but rather traditional in the history of linguistics. But today functional linguistics is constituted by a wide range of theoretical and methodological concerns. What unifies them as functional is the concern with discourse. This is quite natural since language can only function in discourse, not as isolated sentences.This collection of papers reflects some of the major approaches and methodologies in contemporary functional linguistics