Directions in Functional Linguistics.
Functional linguistics is concerned with the function of language and considers it an essense of human language. Views like this is not particularly new, but rather traditional in the history of linguistics. But today functional linguistics is constituted by a wide range of theoretical and methodolo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789027281944 9027281947 128328037X 9781283280372 9786613280374 6613280372 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Functional linguistics is concerned with the function of language and considers it an essense of human language. Views like this is not particularly new, but rather traditional in the history of linguistics. But today functional linguistics is constituted by a wide range of theoretical and methodological concerns. What unifies them as functional is the concern with discourse. This is quite natural since language can only function in discourse, not as isolated sentences. This collection of papers reflects some of the major approaches and methodologies in contemporary functional linguistics in Ja. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 36. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |