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The volume is highly valuable precisely in the depth and breadth of approaches provided. The more theoretical chapters by Wray and Stubbs are, in my view, brilliant, sketching out needed and promising areas of research for future scholars. [...] The very solid chapters [...] provide clarity of theoretical perspectives and depth of application and analysis, serving to effectively demonstrate the relatedness of pragmatics and functional perspectives in illuminating how language functions in use.
The volume is highly valuable precisely in the depth and breadth of approaches provided. The more theoretical chapters by Wray and Stubbs are, in my view, brilliant, sketching out needed and promising areas of research for future scholars. [...] The very solid chapters [...] provide clarity of theoretical perspectives and depth of application and analysis, serving to effectively demonstrate the relatedness of pragmatics and functional perspectives in illuminating how language functions in use.
This volume is a valuable collection which contributes substantially to the existing literature of functional linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics, and as such it is highly recommended.