Functionalism in Linguistics (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, Vol 20)

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. List of Authors Contents By way of introduction • R. Dirven & V. Fried I. Tunctional Linguistics of Prague’ and Other Functional Approaches 1. On Prague School Functionalism in Linguistics • F. Daneš 2. M.A.K. Halliday’s Functional Grammar and the Prague School • K. Davidse 3. Some Principles of Functional Grammar • S.C. Dik 4. S.C. Dik’s Functional Grammar: A Pilgrimage to Prague? • R. Gebruers II. The Theme-Rheme (Topic-Comment) Issue in the Praguian Tradition 5. On the Delimitation of the Theme in Functional Sentence Perspective • J. Firbas 6. Constitutive, Informative and Transformative Models in Modern English Texts and Sentences • J. Nosek 7. Prague Functionalism and Topic vs. Focus • P. Sgall 8. Functional Sentence Perspective and Intensional Logic • A. Svoboda & P. Materna III. Functionalism as a Psycholinguistic Issue 9. A Functionalist Approach to the Acquisition of Grammar • E. Bates & B. MacWhinney 10. Functional Sentence Perspective in Discourse and Language Acquisition • W. Paprotté & C. Sinha 11. Processing Strategies: A Psycholinguistic Neofunctionalism? • G. D. Prideaux IV. Functionalism in General Linguistics 12. The Overestimation of Functionalism • W. Labov 13. Function and Structure in Linguistic Descriptions • W. Haas 14. Communication and Expressivity • A. Hübler 15. Functions of Intonation • J. Esser 16. Written Language Seen from the Functionalist Angle • J. Vachek V. Functionalism in Linguistic Description 17. Word-Formation and Poetic Language: Non-lexicalized Nominal Compounds in the Poetry of Kevin Crossley-Holland • J. Boase-Beier 18. On Acceptable Violations of Parallelism Constraints • A. Grosu 19. A Case of Syntactic Mimicry • J.D. McCawley 20. Functionalism in Contrastive Analysis and Translation Studies • V. Ivir Index of Names Edited By René Dirven And Vilém Fried. Includes Bibliographies And Index.