Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language … 展开

Since the earliest work of the Prague School, language was conceived as a functional system, where term system references back to De Saussure structuralist approach. The … 展开

There are several distinct grammatical frameworks that employ a functional approach.
• The structuralist functionalism of the Prague school was … 展开

• Van Valin Jr, R. D. (2003) Functional linguistics, ch. 13 in The handbook of linguistics, pp. 319–336. 展开

1920s to 1970s: early developments
The establishment of functional linguistics follows from a shift from structural to functional explanation in 1920s sociology. Prague, at the crossroads … 展开

In the functional mode of explanation, a linguistic structure is explained with an appeal to its function. Functional linguistics takes as its starting point the notion that communication is the … 展开

• Theory of language
• Functional grammar (disambiguation)
• Thematic relation
• Morphosyntactic alignment
• Linguistic typology 展开