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This book contains eight studies on Functional Discourse Grammar
(FDG), with work by FDG's foremost proponents, who provide both an
introduction to the theory and a glimpse of current research
projects. FDG derives its name from taking the discourse act as the
basic unit of linguistic analysis. Each such unit receives four
paralle analyses displaying its interpersonal, representational,
morphosyntactic and phonological characteristics respectively. What
is striking about the emergence of FDG is that it enters into
lively debate with various other contemporary frameworks that share
its functionalist orientation. This facet of FDG is highlighted in
this book, every chapter of which brings out the interconnectedness
of current theoretical trends.
Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar isan invaluable resource to
anyone working in Functional Grammar, student and scholar alike. It
contains important articles that have led to new avenues of
research in the theory beyond Dik's two-volume Functional Grammar
(1997), each concluded with a short paragraph with suggestions for
further research. The book also contains an introduction to current
Functional Grammar theory by the editors. Crucial Readings is
uniquein bringing together in one volume the various ideas that
complement Dik's canonical presentation of the theory.The editorial
contributions provide a comprehensive review of Functional Grammar
publications.
We learn to speak and understand our native language without any
great effort, for these are natural aspects of the maturation of
every human being. The skills of reading and writing, by contrast,
have to be learned, usually in an educational context. Now, when it
comes to a foreign language, all the skills (speaking, un
derstanding, reading and writing) have to be learned - nothing can
be acquired without considerable effort. This learning process does
not take place in a vac uum: it is heavily influenced by our
previous experience of acquiring our native language and learning
to read and write it. These facts have been taken as the background
to this book. We aim this book at native speakers of Dutch who have
learned to read and write their own language, and who now wish to
add skill in writing English to their repertoire. Since this is our
well-defined target group, we will be continually pointing to those
aspects of written English which differ from comparable aspects of
written Dutch, while also giving a complete guide to the writing
process. There are two matters concerning the presentation of
information in this book that require clarification in advance.
Firstly, the book contains hundreds of numbered examples."
This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final
statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future
evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to
the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse
and grammar and of detailing the expression rules that link
semantic representation and morphosyntactic form. The opening
chapter, by Kees Hengeveld, sets out in programmatic form a new
architecture for FG which both preserves the best of the
traditional model and offers a place for numerous recent insights.
The remaining chapters are devoted to refining and developing the
programme laid down by Hengeveld, bringing in data from a range of
languages as well as theoretical insights inspired by adjoining
frameworks. Of special interest are an account by Matthew Anstey of
how current proposals arise from the history of FG and various
chapters in which the model is brought much closer to an account of
real-time language production, notably including the first ever
detailed account of the workings of expression rules, by Dik Bakker
and Anna Siewierska. The final chapter, also by Hengeveld, draws
together the findings of the various chapters, culminating in an
elaborated model that represents the most sophisticated statement
of Functional Grammar currently available. The volume thus gives a
coherent account of FG as a theory which combines formal
explicitness with a broad account of language functions.
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