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Haldur Õim, Ilona Tragel. Theoretical Linguistics Abroad and Home at the Beginning of the 21st Century |
2007, nr. 2 |
This article gives an overview of the development
of theoretical linguistics. The authors concentrate on the similarities
and differences between the formal and functional approaches to
language. They also present a short history of the paradigms and
the main ideas that those paradigms have contributed to linguistic
research. A short overview is given of generative grammar, image-schematic
semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, natural semantic metalanguage,
Talmy's cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, neural theory
of language, functional grammar, role and reference grammar, and
Mustajoki's functional syntax theory. The authors also discuss
what kind of theory could be the most useful to meet the challenges
of modern linguistics.
Keywords: theoretical linguistics,
functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics.
Haldur Õim (b. 1942), PhD, University
of Tartu, Deparment of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, professor,
haldur.oim@ut.ee
Ilona Tragel (b. 1968), PhD, University of
Tartu, head of the Language Centre,
ilona.tragel@ut.ee
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