John Benjamins: Book details for The Dynamics of Language Use [P&bns 140]

Foreword	vii
Contributors	ix–xvi
Introduction
Functional approaches to language Christopher S. Butler	3–17
On contrastive linguistics: Trends, challenges and problems María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez	19–45
The present book Christopher S. Butler, María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez	47–53
Form and function in a cognitive perspective
The relation of grammar to thought Wallace Chafe	57–78
Communicative constructions in English and Spanish Montserrat Martinez-Vazquez	79–109
Information Structure
Incremental Functional Grammar and the language of football commentary J. Lachlan Mackenzie	113–128
The role of Theme and Rheme in contrasting methods of organization in texts Michael J. Cummings	129–154
On clefting in English and Spanish María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Francisco Gonzálvez-García	155–196
Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish Maite Taboada	197–218
Collocations and formulaic language
Formulaic language: An overview with particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspective Christopher S. Butler	221–242
A contrastive analysis of entrenchment and collocational force in variable-sized lexical units László Komlósi and Elisabeth Knipf	243–268
Language learning
Designing vocabulary tests for English, Spanish and other languages Paul Meara	271–285
Timing in English and Spanish: An empirical study of the learning of Spanish timing by Anglophone learners Francisco Gutiérrez Díez	287–306
Spanish and English intonation patterns: A perceptual approach to attitudinal meaning Rafael Monroy	307–324
Discourse and culture
Emotivity in narrative discourse: Cross-cultural and cross-gender perspectives Kyoko Takashi and Douglas Wilkerson	327–347
Cardinal Transitivity in foregrounded discourse: A contrastive study in English and Spanish Pilar Guerrero Medina	349–369
English consciousness in 19th century Spain Paloma Tejada Caller	371–394
Language index	395
Scholars index	397–401
Subject index	403–413

The Dynamics of Language Use

Functional and contrastive perspectives

Table of contents

Subject classification