General linguistics
Published 2017-11-27
Keywords
- corpus linguistics,
- discourse studies,
- philosophy of linguistics,
- functional approach,
- relationalism
- discourse ...More
Abstract
This article substantiates the choice of functionalism as a general philosophical methodology, which enables the further integration of corpus linguistics and discourse studies into a new field of modern linguistic research. In light of the proposed approach, the ontological and epistemological features of discourse are specified and the potential of corpus-based discourse studies in terms of the philosophy of linguistics is outlined.