The Dynamics of Language Use
Functional and contrastive perspectives
- Editor(s): Christopher S. Butler 1 , María de los Ángeles Gómez González 2 and Susana M. Doval-Suárez 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Wales, Swansea2 University of Santiago de Compostela
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date September 2005
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027294180
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.140
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.
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