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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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The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse
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Associate Editor
Anita Fetzer
Andreas H. Jucker
University of Augsburg
University of Zurich
Founding Editors Jacob L. Mey
Herman Parret
University of Southern Denmark
Belgian National Science Foundation, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp
Jef Verschueren Belgian National Science Foundation, University of Antwerp
Editorial Board Robyn Carston
Sachiko Ide
Deborah Schiffrin
Thorstein Fretheim
Kuniyoshi Kataoka
Paul Osamu Takahara
John C. Heritage
Miriam A. Locher
University College London University of Trondheim
Japan Women’s University Aichi University
Georgetown University Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
University of California at Los Angeles
Universität Basel
Susan C. Herring
University of Athens
University of California at Santa Barbara
Srikant Sarangi
Cardiff University
Teun A. van Dijk
Masako K. Hiraga
Indiana University St. Paul’s (Rikkyo) University
Sophia S.A. Marmaridou
Marina Sbisà
University of Trieste
Sandra A. Thompson
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Yunxia Zhu
The University of Queensland
Volume 247 The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse. Applications and implications Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez García and Angela Downing
The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse Applications and implications Edited by
María de los Ángeles Gómez González University of Santiago de Compostela
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez University of La Rioja
Francisco Gonzálvez García University of Almeria
Angela Downing University Complutense of Madrid
John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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