RSSBook: Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space
Aug 09
Title: Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space
Series Title: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 68
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sfsl.68
Editor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Editor: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Editor: Francisco Gonzálvez García
Editor: Angela Downing
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270146 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270146 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270146 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215789 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215789 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027215789 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30
Abstract:
The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models
are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and
degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from
cross-fertilising influences. This book further explores this burgeoning area
of research through the notion of functional-cognitive space, namely, the
topography of the space occupied by functional, cognitivist and/or
constructionist models against the background of formalist approaches in
general and of Chomsky’s Minimalism in particular. Specifically, the twelve
contributions in the present volume update the reader on recent developments
in functionalism (Systemic Functional Grammar, Functional Discourse Grammar
and Role and Reference Grammar) and cognitivism (Word Grammar, (Cognitive)
Construction Grammar and the Lexical Constructional Model). Plotting
cognitive-space proves particularly adequate for situating the six models
represented in this volume, not only in relation to each other, but also
potentially with respect to a wide spectrum of functionalist, cognitivist
and/or constructionist models.
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