functionalistn.adj.

1851 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 76 321 As to those unacquainted with the subject, it may perhaps seem impossible, that any authors can have adopted such a division of diseases as that of functional and organic, it will be necessary to bring forward examples of the fact; and to draw from the writings of the functionalists, some illustrations of the strange results arising from the admission of the class of functional diseases.

1900 Psychol. Rev. 7 391 The controversy between those who call themselves the structuralists and functionalists in psychology.

1914 J. B. Watson Behavior i. 8 The terms sensation, perception, affection, emotion, volition are used as much by the functionalist as by the structuralist.

1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xiii. 236 There is only one natural unit for the ethnologist—the culture of all humanity at all periods and in all places; only when the functionalist has..defined his particular culture within that frame of reference, does he know what he is talking about.

1951 R. B. Macleod in J. H. Rohrer & M. Sherif Social Psychol. at Crossroads 224 For the functionalist perceiving is also a function, one of the organism's ways of adjusting itself.

1970 E. Leach Lévi-Strauss i. 7 Most..social anthropologists..claim to be ‘functionalists’; broadly speaking they are anthropologists in the style and tradition of Malinowski. In contrast, Claude Lévi-Strauss is a social anthropologist in the tradition of Frazer.

1996 Economist 20 July 90/3 Forget what mind is made of, functionalists argue; look at what it does.

1930 N.Y. Times 16 Feb. x. 13/5 One wonders whether the Swedish functionalist may not in his turn be dubbed the arch romanticist of them all. He builds to let in the sun—and there is no sun!

1938 Life 25 July 41 Esthetes call all suspenders ugly and vulgar. Functionalists claim they are the only practical, comfortable support for a man's pants.

1939 O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 78 Recent compliance on the part of the insular British with the extreme dictates of the continental functionalists.

1982 Boating Feb. 82 (headline) Sea Devil 25. A bold new concept and a functionalist's dream.

1989 Third Way May 25/1 Are we not enlightened functionalists who have evolved beyond mere decoration?

1998 Independent on Sunday 18 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 16/2 Aalto had begun his architectural life as a Corbusian functionalist.

1930 Language 6 106 Under the theory of polarity, the controversy between formalists and functionalists in syntax is reduced to a question of viewpoint.

1981 La Linguistique 17 127 The chapter on Prague Phonology holds much interest for every functionalist for reasons too obvious to mention.

1995 T. Givón Functionalism & Gram. 26 Describing structures independently of the multiple adaptive contexts that constrain both their use and their evolution is a luxury not available to functionalists.

2016 Internat. Jrnl. Eng. Stud. 16 ii. 4 Later, functionalists paid much more detailed attention to..why verb processes are encoded into a nominal form.

1907 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 4 197 The functionalist logician has been turned upon by both idealist and realist.

1908 Philos. Rev. 17 435 If one adheres strictly to a functionalist position, I do not believe that any distinction can be drawn, on the basis of attitude, between sensations and ideas, say, on the one side, and attention and feeling on the other.

1933 P. Radin Method & Theory Ethnol. ii. 24 The so-called functionalist school of Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski.

1961 Oxf. Mag. 1 June 387/1 Professor Evans-Pritchard's criticisms of ‘functionalist’ (i.e. unhistorical) anthropology have been made on earlier occasions.

2010 D. C. Witherington et al. in G. Bremner & T. D. Wachs Wiley–Blackwell Handbk. Infant Devel. (ed. 2) I. xix. 568 The functionalist approach to emotion argues that emotions reach out to the social and physical world.

1930 Times 18 June 15/6 This is the boldest and most consistent exhibition of what one is compelled to call ‘functionalist’ design.

1934 Archit. Rev. 75 9 Having been first designed as a quasi ‘free classic’ building, it was, as it were, driven to re-designing itself in a more functionalist fashion by sheer pressure of circumstances.

1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 30/2 His answer to the functionalist tower blocks comes in the resolutely minor form of a lino cut showing a beautifully elaborated croquet shed designed for Miss Watts at Aynho.

2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 7 Mar. iv. 3/2 (caption) This Functionalist Era upholstered armchair from Svenska Mobler comes in golden birch and gray Ultrasuede.

2014 L. E. Carranza & F. Luiz Lara Mod. Archit. Lat. Amer. 73/2 The Mexican government's overt interest in functionalist architecture.

1957 Language 33 576 The functionalist theory of sound-change, to the effect that language tends to rid itself of the superfluous and to emphasize the necessary.

1973 Dædalus Summer 199 The basic problem with the functionalist approach is that one cannot create a..list of workable axioms without..limiting the kinds of interactions to be accounted for.

1990 Appl. Linguistics 11 395 Haiman..argues cogently for the respectability of functionalist (as opposed to formalist or structuralist) theories of grammar.

2014 F. J. Newmeyer in B. MacWhinney et al. Competing Motivations in Gram. & Usage xviii. 307 Historical linguists with a functionalist bent tend to stress the common tendency to rule generalization in language change.