Functionalist Theories of Language

Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 696-704

  Butler, C S ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'West Coast' Functional Grammar; Acquisition; Authentic data; Autonomy; Communication; Competing motivations; Context; Discourse; Flexibility; Formalism formalist; Functional Grammar; Functionalism functionalist; Iconic iconicity; Role and Reference Grammar; Systemic Functional Grammar; Typology; Usage based

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EID: 84866975667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/04771-4     Document Type: Chapter

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