Contrastive Functional Analysis

Andrew Chesterman

Contrastive Functional Analysis is a research methodology. It starts from perceived similarities of meaning across two or more languages, and seeks to determine the various ways in which these similar or shared meanings are expressed in different languages. It thus represents one general approach to Contrastive Analysis. It is an approach designated as “functional”, in the sense that it is based on meaning and follows the process of semiosis: it looks at the ways meanings are expressed. The perspective is from meaning to form. Research using this methodology also aims to specify the conditions (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic etc.) which govern the use of different variants, and ultimately to state which variant is preferred under which conditions. Broadly speaking, the approach is thus a paradigmatic one, with a Hallidayan-type focus on the options that speakers have in expressing meanings. It is in fact a kind of cross-linguistic variation analysis.

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