Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) Lockwood, David G.

David G. Lockwood; Peter Howard Fries; James E. Copeland

ISBN 10: 1556198795 / ISBN 13: 9781556198793

Published by J. Benjamins, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2000

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Ex Library book and has stickers or markings as such. No writing or markings other then from the library, All pages intact and clean, shows minor signs of wear from use. Great reading copy, Save money and recycle books! Shipped with care in a bubble mailer. --- A Festschrift honoring the linguist Sydney M. Lamb, this collection gathers essays on functional approaches to language, culture, and cognition. The contributions span a range of theoretical orientations, from cognitively oriented frameworks such as Stratificational grammar - the model most closely associated with Lamb himself - to socially oriented frameworks including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is arranged in two sections. The first, "Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice," opens with papers developing the Stratificational model, then moves to work in related functional models, and continues with further articles addressing linguistic structure. The second section turns to questions of language in relation to culture and cultural change. Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter Howard Fries, and James E.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) Lockwood, David G.
• Publisher: J. Benjamins, Amsterdam; Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556198795
• ISBN 13: 9781556198793
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 14W x 14H x 4D inches 14 inches width by 14 inches height by 4 inches depth
• Weight: 4 pounds
• Book Type: Ex-Library

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This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is organized into two sections.
The first section ‘Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice’ starts with contributions developing a Stratificational model; these are followed by contributions focusing on some related functional model of language; and by articles describing some particular set of language phenomena.
In the second section ‘Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics’ general studies of language change are addressed first; a second group of contributions examines language change, lexicon and culture; and the last cluster of contributions treats the history of linguistics and culture.