The Dynamics of Language Use

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Functional and contrastive perspectives

Christopher S. Butler María de los Ángeles Gómez González Susana M. Doval-Suárez(Editor)

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Published on 22. September 2005

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The Dynamics of Language Use
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Foreword
Contributors
Introduction
Functional approaches to language
1. Introduction: Functionalism within the spectrum of linguistic theories
2. The main tenets of functionalism
3. Some further characteristics of functional approaches
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Resource list
On contrastive linguistics
1. Some terminological issues
2. The revival of Contrastive Linguistics (CL)
3. Looking ahead: Challenges and problems
Note
References
Resource list
The present book
1. Form and function in a cognitive perspective
2. Information structure
3. Collocations and formulaic language
4. Language learning
5. Discourse and culture
6. Concluding remarks
Form and function in a cognitive perspective
The relation of grammar to thought
1. Introduction
2. From thoughts to semantics
2.1. Selection
2.2. Categorization
2.3. Orientation
2.4. Combination
3. Differentiating semantics from grammar
4. Lexicalization and grammaticalization
5. Concluding remarks: Grammar and thought
References
Communicative constructions in English and Spanish
1. Introduction
2. The communicative process
3. The communicative construction
3.1. The participants
3.2. The process: Communication as transfer
4. Constructions with verba dicendi
5. Constructions without verba dicendi
5.1. Discharge verbs
5.2. Cognitive verbs
5.3. Manner of speaking verbs
5.4. Instrumental verbs
5.5. Verbs of gesture
6. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Information structure
Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary
1. Introduction
2. Functional Grammar
3. Functional Discourse Grammar
4. Incremental Functional Grammar
5. Application to data
6. Discussion of the results
7. Conclusion
Note
References
The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts
1. Background and aims
2. Towards a procedure for a quantitative interpretation of method of development
2.1. The method of development and the point in an expository text
2.2. Quantitative interpretation of the method of development and the point
3. Comparison of texts
3.1. Textual analysis of narrative
3.2. Textual analysis of exposition
3.3. Extremely variant texts
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
On clefting in English and Spanish
1. Aims and background
2. The corpora and data
3. Formal properties
3.1. Do clefts exist in Spanish?
3.2. Clefts in English and Spanish
4. Semantic properties
4.1. Identifying constructions
4.2. Existential presupposition
4.3. The exhaustiveness implicature
5. Discourse-cognitive functions
5.1. Thematic flexibility
5.2. Newness-orientation
5.3. Interpersonal flavour
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish
1. Aims and background
2. Centering Theory
3. Applying Centering to spoken language
4. Ranking entities in the focus of attention
5. Choice of anaphoric term for the most salient entity
5.1. Referring expressions and transitions
5.2. Continue transitions
5.3. Retain transitions
5.4. Smooth shift transitions
5.5. Rough shift transitions
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
Collocations and formulaic language
Formulaic language
1. Introduction
2. Corpus-oriented approaches to formulaic language
2.1. Recurrent continuous sequences in English and Spanish
2.2. Recurrent discontinuous sequences in English and Spanish
2.3. Widening the scope of the study: More flexible syntagmatic patterns in English, Spanish and Italian
2.4. Overall conclusions from corpus work: The idiom principle
3. A psycholinguistic approach to formulaicity
4. Some implications for language teaching and learning
4.1. The need to take syntagmatic patterns into account when thinking about vocabulary acquisition
4.2. The complex interplay of grammar and lexis
4.3. Differences in collocational behaviour of apparent translation equivalents across languages
4.4. Formulaic language in relation to psychological and social factors in language learning
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units
1. Aims and background
2. Grammatical meaning, lexical meaning and lexical form
3. Semantic meaning and pragmatic meaning
4. Meaning extension and conceptual integration
5. Entrenchment: Collocational force and idiomaticity
6. The levels of compositionality
6.1. The collocational-level
6.2. The level of idiomaticity
6.3. The level of constructions
6.4. The level of metaphorical organization
6.5. The level of conceptual integration
7. Cross-correlation between compositionality, productivity and processing
8. Comparative linguistic data concerning entrenchment facilitated through iteration
9. A proposed formal classification of the linguistic data
10. Concluding remarks
Note
References
Language learning
Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages
1. Three vocabulary tests1
1.1. Vocabulary size
1.2. Vocabulary organisation
1.3. Accessing the lexicon
2. The problems
2.1. Vocabulary size
2.2. Tests of lexical structure
2.3. Tests of lexical availability
3. Concluding remarks
Note
References
Timing in English and Spanish
1. Introduction
2. On syllable length
3. On phonological learning
4. Objectives
5. The study
5.1. Samples
5.2. Instrument
5.3. Procedure
6. Discussion of results
6.1. Results pertaining to groups G-1 and G-2
6.2. Results relative to group G-3
7. Conclusions
7.1. The timing of prosodic units in English and Spanish
7.2. The timing of Spanish prosodic units by Anglophone learners of that language
Notes
Appendix 1
English text
Spanish text
References
Spanish and English intonation patterns
1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Methodology
3.1. Participants
3.2. Instruments
3.3. Procedure
4. Analysis and results
4.1. Tone group 1: Low drop
4.2. Tone group 2: High drop
4.3. Tone group 3: Take off
4.4. Tone group 4: Low bounce
4.5. Tone group 5: Switchback
4.6. Tone group 6: Long jump
4.7. Tone group 7: High bounce
4.8. Tone group 8: Jackknife
4.9. Tone group 9: High dive
4.10. Tone group 10: Terrace
5. Conclusions
Notes
Appendix I
ENTONACIÓN INGLESA: TEST DE PERCEPCIÓN (Perception test)
References
Discourse and culture
Emotivity in narrative discourse
1. Introduction
2. Corpus and methodology
3. Analysis and discussion
3.1. &Emotive Place&: Terms of reference
3.2. Use of story-telling conventions
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse
1. Introduction
2. Refining the notion of cardinal Transitivity
3. The foreground/background distinction
4. Data analysis
4.1. Morphosyntactic and semantic transitivity at the clause level
4.2. Transitivity in discourse
5. Final remarks
Notes
Appendix
References
English consciousness in 19th century Spain
1. Aims and background
2. Description of the corpus
3. Quantitative results
4. A selection of qualitative results
5. An analysis of the results
6. Concluding remarks
Notes
Appendix
DISCURSOS INAUGURALES (`Opening lectures'): 1860-1870
DISCURSOS DE RECEPCIÓN (`Reception lectures')
References
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Scholars index
Subject index
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