This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors ran

This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors ran

Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and c

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australi

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