Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space
- Editor(s): María de los Ángeles Gómez González 1 , Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 2 , Francisco Gonzálvez-García 3 and Angela Downing 4
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Santiago de Compostela2 University of La Rioja3 University of Almería4 The Complutense University of Madrid
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date July 2014
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027270146
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.68
The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influences. This book further explores this burgeoning area of research through the notion of functional-cognitive space, namely, the topography of the space occupied by functional, cognitivist and/or constructionist models against the background of formalist approaches in general and of Chomsky’s Minimalism in particular. Specifically, the twelve contributions in the present volume update the reader on recent developments in functionalism (Systemic Functional Grammar, Functional Discourse Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar) and cognitivism (Word Grammar, (Cognitive) Construction Grammar and the Lexical Contructional Model). Plotting cognitive-space proves particularly adequate for situating the six models represented in this volume, not only in relation to each other, but also potentially with respect to a wide spectrum of functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models.
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