Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics : The Engineer and the Collector /

This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The book grounds its comparisons between the two in both historical and contemporary contexts where, broadly speaking, formalists’ focus on structural relations...

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Main Author: Thomas, Margaret, (Margaret Ann), 1952-, author 642172
Format: text
Language:eng
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
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