The Dynamics of Language Use

1. Foreword; 2. Contributors; 3. Introduction; 4. Functional approaches to language (by Butler, Christopher S.); 5. On contrastive linguistics: Trends, challenges and problems (by Gomez Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles); 6. The present book (by Butler, Christopher S.); 7. Form and function in a cognitive perspective; 8. The relation of grammar to thought (by Chafe, Wallace); 9. Communicative constructions in English and Spanish (by Martinez-Vazquez, Montserrat); 10. Information Structure; 11. Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary (by Mackenzie, J. Lachlan); 12. The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts (by Cummings, Michael J.); 13. On clefting in English and Spanish (by Gomez Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles); 14. Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish (by Taboada, Maite); 15. Collocations and formulaic language; 16. Formulaic language: An overview with particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspective (by Butler, Christopher S.); 17. A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units (by Komlosi, Laszlo Imre); 18. Language learning; 19. Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages (by Meara, Paul); 20. Timing in English and Spanish: An empirical study of the learning of Spanish timing by Anglophone learners (by Diez, Francisco Gutierrez); 21. Spanish and English intonation patterns: A perceptual approach to attitudinal meaning (by Monroy, Rafael); 22. Discourse and culture; 23. Emotivity in narrative discourse: Cross-cultural and cross-gender perspectives (by Takashi, Kyoko); 24. Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse: A contrastive study in English and Spanish (by Guerrero Medina, Pilar); 25. English consciousness in 19th century Spain (by Caller, Paloma Tejada); 26. Language index; 27. Scholars index; 28. Subject index