What is it about?
Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share two crucial assumptions: (i) form is not independent of meaning/function or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and explanation need to take into account the communicative function of language. This volume offers readers interested in functional linguistics a selected sample of studies that jointly prove the efficacy of the analytical tools and procedures broadly accepted within the functionalist tradition in order to investigate language and discourse, with special focus on key pragmatic/discourse notions such as contextualization, grammaticalisation, reference, politeness, (in-)directness, discourse markers, speech acts, subjective evaluation and sentiment analysis in texts, among others. In addition, this volume offers specific corpus-based techniques for the objective contextualisation of linguistic data, which is crucial given the central role allotted to context in both functional linguistics and pragmatics/discourse analysis.
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Why is it important?
It explores (and puts to a test) the adequacy of the analytical tools developed in the context of the communicative study of language
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to collaborate with some of the best functional linguists in the world
Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza
University of La Rioja
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This page is a summary of: Review of Gómez González, de Mendoza Ibáñez, Gonzálvez García & Downing (2014): The functional perspective on language and discourse, Functions of Language, November 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/fol.22.3.05mcc.
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