Angela Downing

List of John Benjamins publications for which Angela Downing plays a role.

Titles

The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 247] 2014. viii, 292 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 68] 2014. vi, 327 pp.

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Downing, Angela and Elena Martínez Caro 2019 Chapter 4. Interjections and emotions: The case of gosh Emotion in Discourse, Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 87–112 | Chapter

Interjections in general can be considered linguistic expressions of emotions and attitudes, constituting complete and self-contained utterances. Though all languages are believed to have ‘emotive interjections’, the literature on interjections and emotions has proved to be sparse, while studies on… read more

Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing 2014 On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing 2014 Introduction. Plotting functional-cognitive space Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Article

Hidalgo-Downing, Laura, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Angela Downing 2014 Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 261–284 | Article

This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish University students on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints, disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-play eliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker… read more

Downing, Angela 2003 Negotiation topic coherence through talk-in-action Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas, Hladký, Josef (ed.), pp. 119–126 | Article

Downing, Angela 2001 “Surely you knew!”: Surely as a marker of evidentiality and stance Aspects of “Interpersonal Grammar”: Grounding, modality, and evidentiality, Davidse, Kristin and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (eds.), pp. 251–282 | Article

A broad view of evidentiality is adopted, based on Chafe (1986) and Haviland (1987) which goes beyond the grammatical marking of the speaker’s or writer’s perceived sources of knowledge and reliability of these sources to encode, not only what the speaker knows and how s/he knows it, but also what… read more

Downing, Angela and Julia Lavid-López 1998 Information progression strategies in administrative forms: A cross-linguistic study Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English, Sánchez-Macarro, Antonia and Ronald Carter (eds.), pp. 99 ff. | Article

Downing, Angela 1996 The Semantics of Get-passives Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice, Hasan, Ruqaiya †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt (eds.), pp. 179 ff. | Article

Downing, Angela 1995 A functional grammar for students of English Functions of Language 2:2, pp. 229–247 | Article