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Cornish, Francis – Language Sciences, 2013
The Functional Discourse Grammar model has a twofold objective: on the one hand, to provide a descriptively, psychologically and pragmatically adequate account of the forms made available by a typologically diverse range of languages; and on the other, to provide a model of language which is set up to reflect, at one remove, certain of the stages…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Grammar, Models, Language Usage
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Hsiao, Chi-hua – Language Sciences, 2011
Dynamic and interactive uses of personal pronouns are usually not as neat as traditional grammar describes in that the first and second person pronoun index speakers and addressees in a speech event. Devoted to a prevalent feature of Mandarin Chinese conversation--the switch of the first person singular pronoun "wo", "I", and the second person…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Mandarin Chinese, Traditional Grammar
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Huang, Chiung-chih – Language Sciences, 2012
This study explored Mandarin-speaking mothers' referential choice in relation to informativeness. The data consisted of two Mandarin-speaking mothers' natural conversation with their children, collected when the children were between the ages of 2;2 and 3;1. The subject and object arguments of the mothers' utterances were coded for the categories…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Form Classes (Languages), Child Language
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Fabiszak, Malgorzata – Language Sciences, 2010
This paper is an application of Robert E. MacLaury's Vantage Theory (VT) to the analysis of real life spoken discourse. It utilizes Dennis R. Preston's (1994) modification of MacLaury's VT. It elucidates how cognitive processes of coordinate selection and combination contribute to the on-line construction of category membership in the abstract…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
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Niewiara, Aleksandra – Language Sciences, 2010
The paper investigates Polish punk and hip hop (rap) song lyrics broken down into frequency lists. In an analysis inspired by MacLaury's view of categorization, the construals of punk and hip hop worldviews are shown to vary in the distance of the observer from the world, the width of the viewing frame, as well as the granularity and density of…
Descriptors: Singing, Form Classes (Languages), Polish, Popular Culture
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Cameron, Deborah – Language Sciences, 1997
Discusses the tradition of argument about what forms of metalinguistic discourse are valid, useful, and significant in the era of modern Western linguistics, with particular reference to the argument between linguistic science and prescriptivism. The article emphasizes that linguistic norms are open to challenge and change about what their nature…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Language Usage
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Hopper, Paul J.; Thompson, Sandra A. – Language Sciences, 1993
Examination of a range of cross-linguistic generalizations leads to the view that grammar is primarily shaped by the entire range of cognitive, social, and interactional factors involved in language use. Specific grammatical phenomena are discussed that support the view that grammatical regularities arise because of certain strategies people use…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Universals
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Hofmann, Thomas R. – Language Sciences, 1974
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
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Adachi, Nobuko – Language Sciences, 2002
Contrasts differences in language use across the Japanese workplace, including women's speech. Examines what is referred to as "manifestations of power" among Japanese working women. Explores "resistance to subordination" among female university students who have not yet entered professional or domestic life. Comparison of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Females, Foreign Countries
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Nickerson, C.; Bargiela-Chiappini, F. – Language Sciences, 1996
Focuses on personal pronouns in business discourse, using data from four business meetings: formal and informal, in Dutch and in Italian. The article focuses on the pronouns "I" and "we," commenting on the frequency of Dutch inclusive "we," absent from the Italian data. The article also discusses indexical and…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Business Communication, Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics
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Bamberg, Michael – Language Sciences, 1997
Uses three approaches revolving around language issues as a basis for exploring emotions: universal semantics, emotionology, and the theory of "goal-action-outcome knowledge." Uses an approach that attempts to turn around the traditional, realistic picture of the relationship between emotions, cognition, and language. (73 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)