FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO · NL · Est. 1994
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Aims & Scope
Functions of Language is an international journal of linguistics which explores the functionalist perspective on the organisation and use of natural language. It publishes articles and reviews books across the full spectrum of functionalist linguistics, also embracing cognitivist and interactionist methodologies. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages. Within its functionalist brief, the journal’s scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, the structure of linguistic data.
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What is the aims and scope of FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE?
Functions of Language is an international journal of linguistics which explores the functionalist perspective on the organisation and use of natural language. It publishes articles and reviews books across the full spectrum of functionalist linguistics, also embracing cognitivist and interactionist methodologies. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages. Within its functionalist brief, the journal’s scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenome
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