Date: 26-Oct-2005 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: The Dynamics of Language Use: Butler et al (Eds)
Title: The Dynamics of Language Use
Subtitle: Functional and contrastive perspectives
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 140
Published: 2005
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Christopher S. Butler, University of Wales, Swansea
Editor: María de los Ángeles Gómez-González, University of Santiago de Compostela
Editor: Susana M. Doval-Suárez, University of Santiago de Compostela
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253838 Pages: xvi, 413 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253838 Pages: xvi, 413 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Abstract:
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.
Table of contents
Foreword vii
Contributors ix-xvi
Introduction
Functional approaches to language Christopher S. Butler 3-17
On contrastive linguistics: Trends, challenges and problems María de los Ángeles Gómez-González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez 19-45
The present book Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez-González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez 47-53
Form and function in a cognitive perspective
The relation of grammar to thought Wallace Chafe 57-78
Communicative constructions in English and Spanish Montserrat Martinez-Vazquez 79-109
Information Structure
Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary J. Lachlan Mackenzie 113-128
The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts Michael J. Cummings 129-154
On clefting in English and Spanish María de los Ángeles Gómez-González and Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia 155-196
Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish Maite Taboada 197-218
Collocations and formulaic language
Formulaic language: An overview with particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspective Christopher S. Butler 221-242
A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units László I. Komlósi and Elisabeth Knipf 243-268
Language learning
Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages Paul Meara 271-285
Timing in English and Spanish: An empirical study of the learning of Spanish timing by Anglophone learners Francisco Gutiérrez Díez 287-306
Spanish and English intonation patterns: A perceptual approach to attitudinal meaning Rafael Monroy 307-324
Discourse and culture
Emotivity in narrative discourse: Cross-cultural and cross-gender perspectives Kyoko Takashi and Douglas Wilkerson 327-347
Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse: A contrastive study in English and Spanish Pilar Guerrero Medina 349-369
English consciousness in 19th century Spain Paloma Tejada Caller 371-394
Language index 395
Scholars index 397-401
Subject index 403-413
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Linguistic Theories
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
linguistlist.org>
