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Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings." Since the 1970's, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, typology, and documentary linguistics. Further, functional approaches have had a major impact outside linguistics in fields such as psychology and education, both in terms of theory and application. The main goal of functionalist approaches is to clarify the dynamic relationship between form and function (Thompson 2003:53). Functionalist perspectives have gained more ground over the past decades with more linguists resorting to functional explanations to account for linguistic structure. The authors in this volume present the current state of functional approaches to linguistic inquiry expanding our knowledge of language and linguistics.

Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) --- Linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Structural linguistics --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- Functional discourse grammar --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse and Structure. --- Functionalism. --- Language and Thought. --- Linguistics. --- Typological-Functional Explanations.

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A reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing and being possessed by it. This paradox suggests the ambiguities inherent in the concept of audience. In these original essays, a group of international scholars raises fundamental questions about the status--be it rhetorical, semiotic and structuralist, phenomenological, subjective and psychoanalytic, sociological and historical, or hermeneutic--of the audience in relation to a literary or artistic text.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Literature --- Authors and readers. --- Books and reading. --- Reader-response criticism. --- Authors and readers --- Books and reading --- Reader-response criticism --- 028 --- 82.085.43 --- 82.09 --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- 82.085.43 Literaire receptie --- Literaire receptie --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- Literaire kritiek --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- A Book Of. --- Allegory. --- Allusion. --- Archetype. --- Author. --- Book design. --- Book. --- Character (arts). --- Comparative literature. --- Connotation. --- Consciousness. --- Contextualism. --- Copying. --- Critical reading. --- Criticism. --- De se. --- Deconstruction. --- Denotation. --- Discourse analysis. --- Epigraph (literature). --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Exemplum. --- Explanation. --- Exposition (narrative). --- Facsimile. --- Fiction. --- Foreword. --- Genre. --- Hermeneutics. --- Iconology. --- Ideogram. --- Imagery. --- Implied author. --- In Parenthesis. --- Inference. --- Information theory. --- Interaction. --- Interpretant. --- Irony. --- J. Hillis Miller. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jonathan Culler. --- Juvenal. --- Language and thought. --- Language interpretation. --- Lexicography. --- Linguistic system. --- Linguistics. --- Literariness. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Manuscript. --- Mental space. --- Metaphor. --- Narration. --- Narrative structure. --- Narrative. --- Narratology. --- Notation. --- Novel. --- Obfuscation. --- Phraseology. --- Poetry. --- Politique. --- Preface. --- Presupposition. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Reading (process). --- Relativism. --- Rhetoric. --- Roland Barthes. --- Role-playing. --- Scholasticism. --- Semiotics. --- Sentence function. --- Speech act. --- Stylistics (field of study). --- Terminology. --- Textual criticism. --- Textuality. --- The Cult of the Self. --- The Purloined Letter. --- The Various. --- Theory of Literature. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Train of thought. --- Transcoding. --- Transformational grammar. --- Treatise. --- Verb. --- Verisimilitude. --- Working hypothesis. --- Writer. --- Writing process. --- Writing.