* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LINGUIST List logo Eastern Michigan University Wayne State University *
* People & Organizations * Jobs * Calls & Conferences * Publications * Language Resources * Text & Computer Tools * Teaching & Learning * Mailing Lists * Search *
* *
LINGUIST List 18.2652

Wed Sep 12 2007

Books: General Linguistics: Butler, Hidalgo Downing, Lavid (Eds)

Editor for this issue: Hannah Morales <hannahlinguistlist.org>

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue.
Directory
        1.    Paul Peranteau, Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: Butler, Hidalgo Downing, Lavid (Eds)
Message 1: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: Butler, Hidalgo Downing, Lavid (Eds)
Date: 10-Sep-2007
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: Butler, Hidalgo Downing, Lavid (Eds)
E-mail this message to a friend

Title: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse
Subtitle: In honour of Angela Downing
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 85
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2085

Editor: Christopher S. Butler
Editor: Raquel Hidalgo Downing
Editor: Julia Lavid
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230951 Pages: 512 Price: U.S. $ 169.00
Abstract:

This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a
broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the
general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension,
integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages
(Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers
are sequenced according to Halliday’s division into ideational, textual and
interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas,
including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure
and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing
skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in
conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification,
formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use
of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic
productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless
detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng )

See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=31105


-------------------------- Major Supporters --------------------------
Blackwell Publishing http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org
Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com
Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
Equinox Publishing Ltd. http://www.equinoxpub.com/
European Language Resources Association http://www.elda.org/sommaire.php
Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu
Hodder Arnold http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk
John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates http://www.erlbaum.com/
Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.at
MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Mouton de Gruyter http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us
Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com
Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/
Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/
Springer http://www.springer.com

---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ----------------------
Anthropological Linguistics http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/
CSLI Publications http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/
Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc. Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/
International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be
Kingston Press Ltd http://www.kingstonpress.com/
Linguistic Assoc. of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/
SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
St. Jerome Publishing Ltd. http://www.stjerome.co.uk
Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

 





Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue



Please report any bad links or misclassified data

LINGUIST Homepage | Read LINGUIST | Contact us

NSF Logo

While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed
on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.