The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives: 140 (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027253838 ISBN 13: 9789027253835

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2005

Synopsis

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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Synopsis

Proceedings of an international conference held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in September 2003. Following an introductory section of three chapters--functional approaches to language; trends, challenges, and problems in contrastive linguistics; and an overview of the text--14 additional papers are organized into sections on form and function i

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027253838
• ISBN 13: 9789027253835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 431
• Editor: Butler Christopher S., Gómez González María De Los Ángeles, Doval-Suárez Susana M.