Discourse And Pragmatics In Functional Grammar

Author : John H. Connolly,Roel M. Vismans,Christopher S. Butler,Richard A. Gatward
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 249 pages
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Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812237

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Discourse and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar by John H. Connolly,Roel M. Vismans,Christopher S. Butler,Richard A. Gatward Pdf

The contents of this volume are a selection from the papers given at the Sixth International Conference on Functional Grammar (ICFG), which was held in York, at the University College of Ripon and York St John, from 18 to 22 August, 1994. Functional Grammar as understood in the ICFGs and in this volume is the linguistic model as proposed by Simon Dik, and to date most extensively described and discussed in Dik (1989). The indebtedness of the FG-community to Simon Dik, who died six months after the conference was held, is great indeed. The editors hope that this volume is a fitting tribute to his work.

Author : Kees Hengeveld,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199278107

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Functional Discourse Grammar by Kees Hengeveld,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families.

Author : M. Bolkestein,Caspar de Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110846362

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Syntax and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar by M. Bolkestein,Caspar de Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

Author : A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Casper Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015011558601

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Syntax and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar by A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Casper Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

Author : Erich Steiner,Robert Veltman
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : UCAL:B3889587

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Pragmatics, Discourse and Text by Erich Steiner,Robert Veltman Pdf

Author : Michael Hannay,Mike Hannay,A. Machtelt Bolkestein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230478

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Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction by Michael Hannay,Mike Hannay,A. Machtelt Bolkestein Pdf

Functional Grammar (FG) as set out by Simon Dik is the ambitious combination of a functionalist approach to the study of language with a consistent formalization of the underlying structures which it recognizes as relevant. The present volume represents the attempts made within the FG framework to expand the theory so as to cover a wider empirical domain than is usual for highly formalized linguistic theories, namely that of written and spoken discourse, while retaining its methodological precision. The book covers an array of phenomena, both from monologue and from dialogue material, relating to discourse structure, speaker aims and goals, action theory, the flow of information, illocutionary force, modality, etc. The central question underlying most of the contributions concerns the relation between, and the division of labour between the existing grammatical module of FG on the one hand, and a discourse or pragmatic module capable of handling such discourse phenomena on the other. What emerges are new proposals for the formal treatment of for instance illocutionary force and the informational status of constituents. Many of the data discussed are from 'real' language rather than being invented, and samples from various languages other than English (Spanish, Polish, Latin, French) are examined and used as illustrations of the theoretical problem to be solved. Readership: theoretical linguists and discourse and conversation analysts

Author : J. Lachlan Mackenzie,Hella Olbertz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271587

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Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar by J. Lachlan Mackenzie,Hella Olbertz Pdf

This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the theory, who shows how it offers a radically new approach to constituent ordering. Other themes covered are evidentiality, modality, adpositions, verb morphology, possession, raising, sequence of tenses, semi-fixed constructions and prelinguistic conceptualization. The volume contains an introduction that explains the rudiments of FDG and summarizes the ten remaining chapters. The Casebook moves on from Hengeveld & Mackenzie’s (2008) Functional Discourse Grammar to show how the theory is applied to linguistic problems new and old. The languages treated are Blackfoot, Dutch, English, Spanish, Welsh, indigenous languages of Brazil, and many others.

Author : Evelien Keizer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199571864

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A Functional Discourse Grammar for English by Evelien Keizer Pdf

This textbook explores functional discourse grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological level. The book focuses principally on English and provides extensive exercises for students to use and evaluate the theory.

Author : Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289186

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Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics by Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly “usage-based”?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship.

Author : Simon C. Dik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110154048

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The Theory of Functional Grammar: The structure of the clause by Simon C. Dik Pdf

Introduction When one takes a functional approach to the study of natural languages, the ultimate questions one is interested in can be formulated as: How does the natural language user (NLU) work? How do speakers and addressees succeed ...

Author : M.A.K. Halliday,Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen,Michael Halliday,Christian Matthiessen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444119084

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An Introduction to Functional Grammar by M.A.K. Halliday,Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen,Michael Halliday,Christian Matthiessen Pdf

This third edition of An Introduction to Functional Grammar has been extensively revised. While retaining the organization and coverage of the earlier editions, it incorporates a considerable amount of new material.

Author : Daniel García Velasco,Jan Rijkhoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110198673

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The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar by Daniel García Velasco,Jan Rijkhoff Pdf

The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the successor to Simon C. Dik's Functional Grammar. In its current form, FDG has an explicit top-down organization and distinguishes four hierarchically organized, interacting levels: (i) the interpersonal level (language as communicational process), (ii) the representational level (language as a carrier of content), (iii) the morphosyntactic level and (iv) the phonological level. Together they constitute the grammatical component, which in its turn interacts with a cognitive and a communicative component. This comprehensive approach to linguistic analysis is also reflected in this volume, which contains rich and substantial contributions concerning many different aspects of the noun phrase. At the same time, the analysis of a major linguistic construction from various perspectives is an excellent way to test a new model of grammar with regard to some of the standards of adequacy for linguistic theories. The book contains several papers dealing with matters of representation and formalization of the noun phrase (the articles by Kees Hengeveld, José Luis González Escribano, Jan Rijkhoff and Evelien Keizer). Other contributors are more concerned with the practical application of the model with regard to discourse-interpersonal matters (Chris Butler, John H. Connolly), whereas the chapters by Dik Bakker and Roland Pfau and by Daniel García Velasco deal with morphosyntactic issues. In all, the variety of issues addressed and the range of languages considered prove that one of the important advantages of the FDG model is precisely the fact that grammatical phenomena can be treated from a semantic, pragmatic, morpho-syntactic, phonological or textual perspective in a coherent fashion.

Author : Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266149

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Evidentiality Revisited by Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero Pdf

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with special emphasis on the use of evidential and epistemic expressions as resources for stancetaking in discourse. The volume addresses issues such as the relationship between the conceptual domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality, the role of evidential and epistemic resources in modelling stancetaking, the expression of speaker commitment to the validity status of the information, and the discourse-pragmatic variation of evidentiality and epistemic modality in discourse domains and genres. The volume offers a collection of contributions in which cross-linguistic studies and corpus-based studies contribute to provide further insights into a usage-based account of linguistic reality.

Author : Robert E. Longacre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489901620

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The Grammar of Discourse by Robert E. Longacre Pdf

In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.

Author : Casper de Groot,Kees Hengeveld
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110920833

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Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar by Casper de Groot,Kees Hengeveld Pdf

Morphological and syntactic issues have received relatively little attention in Functional Grammar, due to the fact that this grammatical model, given its functional orientation, was primarily concerned with developing its pragmatic and semantic components. Now that these have been solidly developed, this book turns to the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the model. Two recent developments receive pride of place: Bakker's Dynamic Expression Model and Hengeveld and Mackenzie's Functional Discourse Grammar. The first model aims at accounting for the complex interactions that one finds in many languages between the sets of expression rules that have to account for form on the one hand and those that establish order on the other. The second model takes a further step by considering morphosyntactic and phonological representations to be part of the underlying structure of the grammar rather than as the output of that grammar, contrary to the original assumptions in FG. The book accordingly contains synopses of these two proposals as well as applications of these to a variety of linguistic phenomena. Further articles provide detailed analyses of a range of semantic and pragmatic categories and their morphosyntactic expression in a wide variety of languages. The articles in this book contain data on some 60 different languages, including focused articles on phenomena in Arabic, Danish, English, Lengua de Señas Española, Mapudungun, Plains Cree, and Tanggu. In all, the contributions to this volume show that the issue of morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar is very much alive and moving into promising new directions, while at the same time contributing to a better understanding of a large number of morphosyntactic phenomena in a wide variety of languages.