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Author : Robert J. Di Pietro
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Contrastive linguistics
ISBN :
Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027290520
This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of ‘home’ and ‘abroad’, the development of children’s emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.
Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027251207
In four parts, this title deals with: grammaticalization; metaphor in contrast; cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts; and the semantics/pragmatics boundary - theory and applications.
Author : Jarle Ebeling
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027271623
Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically. As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first part offers an in-depth discussion of contrastive linguistics, with special emphasis on using translations as tertium comparationis and a parallel corpus as the main source of material. Central to the contrastive analysis is the use of corpus-linguistic methods in the identification of patterns, while a deeper understanding of the phraseological nature of the patterns is closely related to the concept of extended units of meaning. The second part of the book presents five case studies, using an easy-to-follow step-by-step method to illustrate the phraseological-contrastive approach at work. The studies show that patterns weave an intricate web of meanings across languages and demonstrate the potential of exploring patterns in contrast.
Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588112071
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Marta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.
Author : Stefania Marzo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027202621
Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. This title illustrates this trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies.
Author : Sandro Sessarego
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027260893
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish co-exist with other languages and dialects under the influence of several linguistic and extra-linguistic forces. While some papers analyze the linguistic dynamics affecting Spanish grammars from a cross-dialectal perspective, others focus more closely on the relations established between Spanish and other languages with which it is in contact. In particular, some of these studies show how power and prestige may support (or not) the use of Spanish in different social contexts and educational realities, given that the attitudes toward this language vary greatly across the Spanish-speaking world. On the one hand, in some regions, Spanish represents the variety spoken by the majority of the population, typically related to prestige and power (Spain and Latin America). On the other hand, in other contexts, the same language is conceived as a minority variety, which may or may not be associated with stigmatized immigrant groups (i.e., in the US).
Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN :
This volume examine some of the new possibilities within cross-linguistic research offered by computerized bi-lingual text corpora. Three types of bi-lingual corpora are discussed: parallel corpora, translation corpora, and learner corpora. Special attention is paid to methodological issues such as the compilation of bi-lingual corpora, the reliability of translations and parallel texts, text encoding and alignment, and the development of tools for computer-aided translation. In addition, the volume presents several research projects as well as empirical studies focusin gon lexical, grammatical and discoursal contrasts between English and other, mainly Scandinavian, languages.
Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027289689
This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics. Part I focuses, from a broadly functional-cognitive viewpoint, on the close link with typology, stressing the importance of embedding the treatment of grammatical categories in their contexts of use. Part II turns to methodological issues, exploring the enormous potential offered by parallel, computer-accessible corpora to contrastive linguistics and to enhancing the testability, authenticity and empirical adequacy of cross-linguistic studies. Part III is concerned with contrastive semantics, ranging from individual items to entire grammatical constructions, and shows how meanings are coupled to language-specific cognitive strategies and even to cultural differences in subjective awareness and the fashioning of personal identity.
Author : Vladimir Ivir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311086911X
The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the mutual influence of linguistic systems in contact and on the language contrasts that govern the linguistic behaviour of the bilingual speaker.