Functional Approaches to Language / / ed. by Carmen Jany, Shannon Bischoff.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ann Gernsbacher, Morton,; Bischoff, Shannon T.,; Chafe, Wallace,; Duffield, Cecily Jill,; Givón, T.,; Harder, Peter,; Heine, Bernd,; Itkonen, Esa,; Jany, Carmen,; Kaltenböck, Gunther,; Kaschak, Michael P.,; Kuteva, Tania,; Long, Haiping,; Menn, Lise,; Narasimhan, Bhuvana,
• HerausgeberIn: Bischoff, Shannon,; Jany, Carmen,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 248
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 p.)

Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings." Since th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• On the Intellectual Roots of Functionalism in Linguistics
• Functional Explanation and its Uses
• Structure and Function: A Niche-Constructional Approach
• Toward a Thought-Based Linguistics
• Changing Language
• An Outline of Discourse Grammar
• Towards an Experimental Functional Linguistics: Production
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Index