Functionalism And Formalism In Linguistics

Author : Mike Darnell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 416 pages
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Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230454

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Case studies by Mike Darnell Pdf

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley. Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.

Author : Mike Darnell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230447

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: General papers by Mike Darnell Pdf

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley. Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.

Author : Margaret Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
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Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429849978

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Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics by Margaret Thomas Pdf

This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The book grounds its comparisons between the two in both historical and contemporary contexts where, broadly speaking, formalists’ focus on structural relationships and idealized linguistic data contrasts with functionalists’ commitment to analyzing real language used as a communicative tool. The book highlights key sub-varieties, proponents, and critiques of each respective approach. It concludes by comparing formalist versus functionalist contributions in three domains of linguistic research: in the analysis of specific grammatical constructions; in the study of language acquisition; and in interdisciplinary research on the origins of language. Taken together, the volume opens insight into an important tension in linguistic theory, and provides students and scholars with a more nuanced understanding of the structure of the discipline of modern linguistics.

Author : Franz Kröber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656000921

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Structuralism, Formalism and Functionalism by Franz Kröber Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Levels of Linguistic Analysis: Theorie and Grammar, language: English, abstract: Die bedeutensten linguistischen Strömungen des 20. Jahrhunderts sind zweifelsohne der Strukturalismus, Formalismus und Funktionalsismus. Neben knappen aber verständlichen Definitionen dieser drei Strömungen versucht der Aufsatz den grundsätzlichen Übereinstimmungen der Theorien näherzukommen und gleichzeitig ihre jeweiligen Unterschiede zu erklären.

Author : Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298799

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics by Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley Pdf

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley. Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.

Author : Franz Kröber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783656000501

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Structuralism, Formalism and Functionalism by Franz Kröber Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: Levels of Linguistic Analysis: Theorie and Grammar, language: English, abstract: Die bedeutensten linguistischen Strömungen des 20. Jahrhunderts sind zweifelsohne der Strukturalismus, Formalismus und Funktionalsismus. Neben knappen aber verständlichen Definitionen dieser drei Strömungen versucht der Aufsatz den grundsätzlichen Übereinstimmungen der Theorien näherzukommen und gleichzeitig ihre jeweiligen Unterschiede zu erklären.

Author : Linguistics Symposium (23, 1996, Milwaukee, Wis.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174438270

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics by Linguistics Symposium (23, 1996, Milwaukee, Wis.) Pdf

Author : Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027298785

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics by Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley Pdf

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium. Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley. Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.

Author : René Dirven,Vilém Fried
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027215246

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Functionalism in Linguistics by René Dirven,Vilém Fried Pdf

This volume offers a variety of viewpoints on the functional approach to the study of language. After an exposition of the Prague School functionalism, and Dik's and Halliday's functional approaches, it presents a wider area of text-linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, theoretical, descriptive and applied issues from a functional point of view, testifying of the very wide-spread and in-depth impact of functionalist thought on the present-day linguistic scene.

Author : James McElvenny
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961101825

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Form and formalism in linguistics by James McElvenny Pdf

"Form" and "formalism" are a pair of highly productive and polysemous terms that occupy a central place in much linguistic scholarship. Diverse notions of "form" – embedded in biological, cognitive and aesthetic discourses – have been employed in accounts of language structure and relationship, while "formalism" harbours a family of senses referring to particular approaches to the study of language as well as representations of linguistic phenomena. This volume brings together a series of contributions from historians of science and philosophers of language that explore some of the key meanings and uses that these multifaceted terms and their derivatives have found in linguistics, and what these reveal about the mindset, temperament and daily practice of linguists, from the nineteenth century up to the present day.

Author : Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230684

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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics by Michael Darnell,Edith A. Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,Frederick J. Newmeyer,Kathleen Wheatley Pdf

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches functionalists and formalists in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium.Volume 1 includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics.Volume 2 consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps."

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262640449

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Language Form and Language Function by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf

The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formalist and the functionalist approaches. In this engaging monograph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, a formalist, argues that both approaches are valid. However, because formal and functional linguists have avoided direct confrontation, they remain unaware of the compatability of their results. One of the author's goals is to make each side accessible to the other. While remaining an ardent formalist, Newmeyer stresses the limitations of a narrow formalist outlook that refuses to consider that anything of interest might have been discovered in the course of functionalist-oriented research. He argues that the basic principles of generative grammar, in interaction with principles in other linguistic domains, provide compelling accounts of phenomena that functionalists have used to try to refute the generative approach.

Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027225061

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Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics by Geoffrey N. Leech Pdf

The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of linguistic communication that also includes pragmatics. The tension between the psycho-formalist and the socio-functional views could be resolved in a synthesis whereby both the psychological and social natures of language are fully acknowledged. Semantics and pragmatics, representing these two natures in the study of meaning, have distinct goals, which can be defined more clearly and pursued more effectively to the extent that both their distinctness and their interdependence are recognized.

Author : Akio Kamio,Ken?ichi Takami
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250735

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Function and Structure by Akio Kamio,Ken?ichi Takami Pdf

This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and theory-oriented approach and linked it with the American formalist approach of generative grammar. His approach is thus a unique combination of functionalism and formalism that constantly urges the promotion of interactions between these two major trends in linguistics. The papers in this collection coherently deal with functional aspects of linguistics from a wide variety of perspectives such as theoretical, applicational, experimental and diachronic aspects, incorporating the functional concept advocated by Kuno.

Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250322

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Aspects of a Cognitive-pragmatic Theory of Language by Jan Nuyts Pdf

This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to be accounted for, simultaneously and coherently, in accounting for language. Chapter 1 presents the cognitivist and functionalist points of view and their interrelation and discusses the integration of language research under a cognitive umbrella; the issue of defining 'functions of language', and the formalism-functionalism debate. Chapter 2 criticizes the Chomskyan formalist conception of language and cognition from the perspective of cognitive-pragmatic theory. The focus is on different aspects of the competence-performance dichotomy, and in particular on the nature of linguistic knowledge. The ontogenesis and phylogenesis of language are also discussed. Chapter 3 deals with the potential contribution of a functional-linguistic grammar to an integrated conception of the cognitive systems of language, viz. Dik's Functional Grammar, and introduces the concept of a Functional Procedural Grammar as a more integrative model for language production. Special attention is also paid to the nature of conceptual knowledge and the relationship between language production and interpretation. The debate is illustrated by an analysis of negative-raising.