Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space: 157 (Studies in Language Companion Series) - Hardcover

Butler, Christopher S.; Gonzálvez-García, Francisco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027259224 ISBN 13: 9789027259226

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2014

Synopsis

This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional “functional-cognitive space” within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The analysis covers a broad range of 16 such approaches, with some additional references to Chomskyan minimalism, and is based on 58 questionnaire items, each rated by 29 experts on particular models for their importance in the model concerned. These ratings are analysed statistically to reveal overall patterns of (dis)similarity across models. The questionnaire ratings and experts’ comments are then used, together with the authors’ close reading of the literature, in detailed discussion leading to a final dichotomous rating for each feature in each model, the results again being analysed statistically. The final chapter presents the overall conclusions and suggests how existing collaborations between approaches could be strengthened, and new ones created, in future research.
Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space has been awarded the 2016 prize of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, AESLA) for work by experienced researchers.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027259224
• ISBN 13: 9789027259226
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 597