Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In Honour of Angela DowningChristopher Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing, Julia Lavid 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. |
Contents
Towards a cognitivefunctional model of text comprehension | 41 |
Towards an integrational approach in linguistics | 81 |
Expressing past habit in English and Swedish A corpusbased contrastive study | 97 |
Do cognate and circumstantial complements of intransitive verbs | 129 |
The UNCONSCIOUS IRRESPONSIBLE CONSTRUCTION in Modern Icelandic | 149 |
An example from British tabloid journalism | 205 |
Pragmatics word order and crossreference Some issues with pronominal | 233 |
Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills | 257 |
The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead | 301 |
Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics | 327 |
Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues | 349 |
Sorry to muddy the waters Accounting for speech act formulae | 395 |
The discourse functionality of adjectival and adverbial epistemic expressions | 419 |
The modals and semimodals | 447 |
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A set of structures in general | 279 |
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