Functional Discourse Grammar

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • B. Heine
  • H. Narrog
Book title The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis
ISBN
  • 9780199544004
Series Oxford handbooks in linguistics
Pages (from-to) 367-400
Publisher Oxford: Oxford University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is a typologically based structural-functional theory of language. It has a top-down organization to achieve psychological adequacy, and takes the Discourse Act as its basic unit of analysis to achieve pragmatic adequacy. Although itself strictly a model of grammar, FDG is designed to interact with Conceptual, Contextual, and Output Components, so as to enhance its compatibility with a wider theory of verbal interaction.
Document type Chapter
Language English
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