Información General

• Autores: Christopher S. Butler (ed. lit.), Raquel Hidalgo Downing (ed. lit.), Julia Lavid López (ed. lit.), Angela Downing Rothwell (hom.)
• Editores: John Benjamins
• Año de publicación: 2014
• Colecciones: Studies in Language Companion Series, 85
• País: España
• Idioma: español
• ISBN: 978-90-272-3095-9
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Resumen

• 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.

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Listado de artículos

• • Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product

    Talmy Givón

    págs. 1-39

    

  • Towards a cognitive-functional model of text comprehension

    Christopher S. Butler

    págs. 41-80

    

  • Towards an integrational approach in lunguistics

    Andrei Stoevsky

    págs. 81-96

    

  • Expressing past habit in Engllish and Swedish: A corpus-based contrastive study

    Bengt Altenberg

    págs. 97-128

    

  • Do cognate and circumstantial complements of intransitive verbs form one "Range"?: A corpus-based discussion

    Kathleen Rymen, Kristin Davidse

    págs. 129-148

    

  • The unconscious, irresponsible construction in Modern Icelandic

    Enrique Bernárdez Sanchís

    págs. 149-164

    

  • Modelling "selection" between referents in the English nominal group: An essay in scientific inquiry in linguistics

    Robin P. Fawcett

    págs. 165-204

    

  • Problems in NP structure: An example from British tabloid journalism

    Robin P. Fawcett

    págs. 205-216

    

  • Double-possessive nominalizations in English

    J. Lachlan Mackenzie

    págs. 217-232

    

  • Pragmatics, word order and cross-reference: Some issues with pronominal clitics in Bulgarian

    Svilen B. Stanchev

    págs. 233-256

    

  • Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills

    Mike Hannay

    págs. 257-278

    

  • Interactive soluction-problems: A set of structures in general and scientific writing

    Michael P. Jordan

    págs. 279-300

    

  • The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead

    Bruce Fraser

    págs. 301-312

    

  • Global and local attention in task-oriented converstion: a empirical investigation

    Julia Lavid López

    págs. 313-326

    

  • Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken Spanish

    Raquel Hidalgo Downing, Laura Hidalgo Downing

    págs. 327-348

    

  • Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues

    Ludmila Urbanova

    págs. 349-358

    

  • Mister so-called X: Discourse functions and subjectification of so-called

    Lieven Vandelanotte

    págs. 359-394

    

  • "Sorry to muddy the waters": Accounting for speech act formulae and formulaic variation in a systemic functional model of language

    Gordon Tucker

    págs. 395-418

    

  • The discourse functionality of adjectival and adverbial epistemic expressions: Evidence from present-day English

    Anne Marie Simon Vandenbergen, Karin Aijmer

    págs. 419-446

    

  • Modality across World Englishes: The modals and semi-modals of prediction and volition

    Peter Collins

    págs. 447-468