Books by MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ
A New Architecture for Functional Grammar
This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997)... more 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.
Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar
This book contains eight studies on Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), with work by FDG's foremo... more 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 parallel 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.
Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison
This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their ... more This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of ‘home’ and ‘abroad’, the development of children’s emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.
Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives
This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive ... more This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics. Part I focuses, from a broadly functional-cognitive viewpoint, on the close link with typology, stressing the importance of embedding the treatment of grammatical categories in their contexts of use. Part II turns to methodological issues, exploring the enormous potential offered by parallel, computer-accessible corpora to contrastive linguistics and to enhancing the testability, authenticity and empirical adequacy of cross-linguistic studies. Part III is concerned with contrastive semantics, ranging from individual items to entire grammatical constructions, and shows how meanings are coupled to language-specific cognitive strategies and even to cultural differences in subjective awareness and the fashioning of personal identity.
Papers by MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ
Linguistics and The Human Sciences, Dec 13, 2012
We examine how one particular coherence relation, Concession, is marked across languages and moda... more We examine how one particular coherence relation, Concession, is marked across languages and modalities, through an extensive analysis of the Concession relation, examining the types of discourse markers used to signal it. The analysis is contrastive from three different angles: markers, languages and modalities. We compare different markers within the same language (but, although, however, etc.), and two languages (English and Spanish). We aim to provide a contrastive methodology that can be applied to any language, given that it has as a starting point the abstract notion of coherence relations, which we believe are similar across languages. Finally, we compare two modalities: spoken and written language. In the analysis, we find that the contexts in which concessive relations are used are similar across languages, but that there are clear differences in the two modalities or genres. In the spoken genre, the most common function of concession is to correct misunderstandings and contrast situations. In the written genre, on the other hand, concession is most often used to qualify opinions.
Part I. The Theme — Topic Interface
Summary, Conclusions, and Further Research
CRC Press eBooks, Feb 28, 2006
Part II. Previous Studies: A Sympathetic Critique
Review of Aijmer (2011): Contrastive Pragmatics
Languages in Contrast, Jan 12, 2012
A New Architecture for Functional Grammar
Functional Grammar Series, 2004
Page 1. A New Architecture for Functional Grammar ≥ Page 2. Functional Grammar Series 24 Editors ... more Page 1. A New Architecture for Functional Grammar ≥ Page 2. Functional Grammar Series 24 Editors Casper de Groot J. Lachlan Mackenzie Mouton de Gruyter Berlin· New York Page 3. A New Architecture for Functional Grammar ...
Multi-platform application for learning English phonetics: Serious Game
2022 Congreso de Tecnología, Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de la Electrónica (XV Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference)
THE DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE USE: FUNCTIONAL AND CONTRASTIVE PERSPECTIVES, Christopher S. Butler, Maria de los Angeles Gómez-González, and Susana M. Doval-Suárez (Eds.)
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
<i>WORD</i>, 2001
This article addresses some theoretical issues and empirical problems which emerge from, and whic... more This article addresses some theoretical issues and empirical problems which emerge from, and which seem to limit, Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), in particular the analysis of Theme and other related notions, as presented by M. A. K. Halliday in his 1994 book Introduction to Functional Grammar (IFG). My discussion is developed from a position drawing from the works of both defenders and detractors of the SFG program. The paper includes first a description of the foundations of SFG: secondly, an exposition of some moot points of the model, focusing on its treatment of Theme: and thirdly, a summary of the conclusions reached in this investigation. In the present paper, such claims and programmatic suggestions can at best be hinted at, but it is to be hoped that they will at least point to directions for future research in SFG. 1 2 WORD. VOLUME 52, NUMBER I (APRIL, 2001) ural, or non-arbitrary, integrative system in a process of instantiation (i.e. a dynamic, non-directional type of relationship between the system and instances of the system). This process generates multilayered structural compositions consisting of complex functional roles (IFG:371; Bloor and Bloor 1996; Lock 1996). Within this framework, Halliday (IFG:334) proposes a separating approach 2 to the textual resources of languages as follows: A. STRUCTURAL. 1. Thematic structure: Theme and Rheme.
How is discourse constructed and evaluation achieved in verbal interaction?
Introduction: How is discourse constructed and evaluation achieved in verbal intercation?
The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, 2018, ISBN 978-90-272-0141-6, págs. 1-9, 2018
A corpus-based approach to theme in present-day british english: towards an alternative moderate functionalist interpretation
Revista Espanola De Linguistica Aplicada, 1997
Towards an alternative account of FG Topic
Verba, 1998
This paper revises the notion of Topic as rendered within the framework of Functional Grammar (FG... more This paper revises the notion of Topic as rendered within the framework of Functional Grammar (FG). It is argued that, although in principle this category is described from a semantic perspective, that is, as entailing a relationship of aboutness', it turns out to be assigned both syntactic and informational readings. In other words, Topic (and its subtypes) is simultaneously identified with : (1) clause initial position and (2) salient/given information in the discourse co(n)text and/or the interactants' minds, which gives rise to a number of detable issues. In section 1 a cursory description is given of what is here understood by syntactic, informational and semantic interpretations of Topic. Section 2 concentrates on FG Topic, paying special attention to the weakness inherent in this model. And finally, section 3 summarises the main conclusions drawn in this paper, making suggestions for further research on this field
The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2014
1. Contributors 2. Introduction 3. On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics (by Gomez G... more 1. Contributors 2. Introduction 3. On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics (by Gomez Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles) 4. I. Methods in the analysis of language and discourse 5. Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy: The challenge of hybridity (by Wray, Alison) 6. A method of analysing recontextualisation in the communication of science (by Connolly, John) 7. Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project: Issues and problems (by Lavid, Julia) 8. Form and function in evaluative language: The use of corpora to identify context valence shifters in a linguistically-motivated sentiment analysis system (by Moreno Ortiz, Antonio) 9. Life before Nation: Bibliometrics and L2 vocabulary studies in 1982 (by Meara, Paul) 10. II. Pragmatics and grammar 11. A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions (by Guerrero Medina, Pilar) 12. How did we think? (by Janssens, Karolien) 13. The adverb truly in Present-Day English (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie) 14. III. Current trends in pragmatics and discourse analysis 15. Nominal reference and the dynamics of discourse: A cognitive-functional approach (by Davidse, Kristin) 16. 'Pragmatic punting' and prosody: Evidence from corpora (by Romero Trillo, Jesus) 17. Besides as a connective (by Hannay, Mike) 18. Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts: A sketch of a research problem (by Stubbs, Michael) 19. Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers' production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish (by Hidalgo Downing, Laura) 20. Name index
A Reappraisal of Lexical Cohesion in Conversational Discourse
Applied Linguistics, 2012
Cohesion, or the connectedness of discourse, has been recognized as playing a crucial role in bot... more Cohesion, or the connectedness of discourse, has been recognized as playing a crucial role in both language production and comprehension processes. Researchers have debated about the ‘right’ number and classification of cohesive devices, as well as about their interaction with coherence and/or genre. The present study proposes an integrative model of lexical cohesion that extends previous models and argues for the difference between ‘associative cohesion’ and ‘(lexical) collocation’. Its evaluation against a corpus of 14 conversations, 7 broadcast discussions and 7 phone calls, reports the former to show almost six times as many instances of lexical ties as the latter, a difference that is attributed to the divergent features of these two genres. Apart from quantitative findings supported by statistical significance tests, qualitative analyses also show that lexical cohesion is involved in turn-taking behaviors and topic management patterns, thereby contributing to the establishment of interpersonal relationships and the expansion of generic stages in these two kinds of spoken interactions.
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Books by MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ
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.
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.
Papers by MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ
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.
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.