In:The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives
Edited by Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 140] 2005
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Published online: 22 September 2005
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.140.toc
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Table of contents
Forewordvii
Contributors
Introduction
Functional approaches to language
On contrastive linguistics: Trends, challenges and problems
Form and function in a cognitive perspective
The relation of grammar to thought
Communicative constructions in English and Spanish
Information Structure
Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary
The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts
On clefting in English and Spanish
Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish
Collocations and formulaic language
Formulaic language: An overview with particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspective
A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units
Language learning
Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages
Timing in English and Spanish: An empirical study of the learning of Spanish timing by Anglophone learners
Spanish and English intonation patterns: A perceptual approach to attitudinal meaning
Discourse and culture
Emotivity in narrative discourse: Cross-cultural and cross-gender perspectives
Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse: A contrastive study in English and Spanish
English consciousness in 19th century Spain
Language index395
Scholars index
Subject index
