Lexis In Contrast

Author : Bengt Altenberg,Sylviane Granger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588110907

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Lexis in Contrast by Bengt Altenberg,Sylviane Granger Pdf

This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields - contrastive linguistics, lexicology, lexicography, terminology, computational linguistics and machine translation. The articles in the volume, which cover a wide diversity of languages, are divided into four main sections: the exploration of cross-linguistic equivalence, contrastive lexical semantics, corpus-based multilingual lexicography, and translation and parallel concordancing. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to recent trends in contrastive lexical studies written by the editors of the volume, Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger.

Author : Maïté Dupont
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260116

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Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French by Maïté Dupont Pdf

Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers are analysed using large corpora of texts from two written registers: newspaper editorials and research articles. The corpus study revisits the long-standing but largely unsubstantiated claim that French requires more explicit markers of cohesive conjunction than English and shows that the opposite is in fact the case. Novel insights into the placement preferences of English and French conjunctive markers are provided by a new approach to theme and rheme that attaches more importance to the rheme than previous studies. The study demonstrates the significant benefits of a combined corpus and Systemic Functional Linguistics approach to the cross-linguistic analysis of cohesion.

Author : Thomas Egan,Hildegunn Dirdal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264725

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Cross-linguistic Correspondences by Thomas Egan,Hildegunn Dirdal Pdf

Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles. The present volume, which comprises an introduction and ten chapters dealing with lexical contrasts between English and other languages, shows advances within the well-established lexical work in the field. Each of the chapters takes lexical items as its starting point and compares English with one or more languages. The languages represented are Spanish, Lithuanian, Swedish, German, Norwegian and Czech. Furthermore, they emphasise the link between lexis and grammar, not only within the same language, but also across languages. Finally, several studies represent one of the more recent developments of contrastive linguistics, namely a growing focus on genre and register comparisons. The book should appeal to both established scholars and advanced students with an interest in lexis, genre, corpus linguistics and/or contrastive linguistics.

Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt,Ken Turner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588112071

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Meaning Through Language Contrast by Katarzyna Jaszczolt,Ken Turner Pdf

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 : Anna Cermakova,Hilde Hasselgård,Markéta Malá,Denisa Šebestová
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350385955

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Contrastive Corpus Linguistics by Anna Cermakova,Hilde Hasselgård,Markéta Malá,Denisa Šebestová Pdf

Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of language registers from newspaper reporting and spoken political discourse to film scripts and football match reports. Using English as the pivot language for each chapter, the volume offers contrastive bilingual and trilingual perspectives on a number of languages, including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, covering a typologically diverse field. By exploring the application of complex multi-genre multilingual data sets and expanding the horizons of contrastive studies, it demonstrates how a juxtaposition of cross-linguistic and register variation can deepen our insight into language variation and use. The volume is dedicated to two prominent contrastive corpus linguists: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, who have decisively shaped the discipline from its very beginnings. The book opens with a chapter by Aijmer, reflecting on the current breadth and future prospects of research in the area while pointing to emergent trends with an insight that only she can offer.

Author : Hans C. Boas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110212976

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Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography by Hans C. Boas Pdf

This book demonstrates how the underlying principles of the English-based FrameNet project are successfully applied to the description and analysis of typologically diverse languages. The stimulating collection of articles brings together insights from lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, computational lexicography, machine learning, and psychology to address three main questions: To what degree is it possible to apply semantic frames derived from the English lexicon to the description and analysis of other languages? What types of resources are necessary for the creation of FrameNets for French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, and Spanish? How can the creation of multi-lingual FrameNets be automated? The contents exemplifies the liveliness of current research on cross-lingual applications of Frame Semantics to natural language processing.

Author : Christopher Butler,María A. Gómez-González,Susana María Doval Suárez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253838

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The Dynamics of Language Use by Christopher Butler,María A. Gómez-González,Susana María Doval Suárez Pdf

This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported are empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.

Author : Daniel Sherman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739172339

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Soul, World, and Idea by Daniel Sherman Pdf

In its examination of two of Plato's key works, Soul, World, and Idea: An Interpretation of Plato's Republic and Phaedo reveals the key role that images and our capacity for image-making play in the relationship among soul, world, and Idea. This bookbegins and ends with a reading of the Republic. Daniel Sherman turns midway to the Phaedo to further analyze the nature of the soul and its relation to the nature of the Ideas, then returns to apply the conclusions to the rest of the Republic. Sherman's focus is on the ontological and epistemological argument, including attention to the dramatic detail. He argues that the ontology of the Ideas in the Republic and the Phaedo is inseparable from the ontology of human being, that is, from the structure and life of the soul. On this interpretation, the Ideas are seen as indeed objective but as in a sense also a product of a permanent dialectical relationship. The Ideas, though something more than concepts, do not have any real independent existence outside of this human dialectical triad of world, soul and Idea. The stability of the Ideas need not be grounded in a static otherworldliness, and the condition of meaning is not temporally prior to human existence in general. The result is a new interpretation concerning the realm of the Ideas, the immortality of the soul, and the lived in world of their interaction in the production of interpretive images. Sherman argues that the platonic soul is immortaland the Ideas eternal wholly and solely in human (dialogical) activity--the rest is muthologia--and that the world of our experience is a product of an ongoing act of interpretation or dianoetic dialegesthai. This reinterpretation of the platonic Ideas will be especially interesting to students and scholars of classics, ancient philosophy, and continental philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004361133

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Corpora and Lexis by Anonim Pdf

This collection of research articles provides state-of-the-art research in corpus linguistics on lexis and lexico-grammar, focussing on major corpus resources (both corpora and software tools), their theoretical implications and the pedagogical applications of corpus findings.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444356755

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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics by David Crystal Pdf

David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth edition, it has been revised and updated to reflect the latest terms in the field. Includes in excess of 5,100 terms, grouped into over 3,000 entries Coverage reflects recommendations by a team of experts in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, making it exceptionally comprehensive Incorporates new ideas stemming from the minimalist program Contains a separate table of abbreviations and table of symbols, along with an updated International Phonetic Alphabet Updates entries to reflect the way established terms are now perceived in light of changes in the field, providing a unique insight into the historical development of linguistics Remains the standard single-volume reference for the field of linguistics and phonetics.

Author : Marie-Aude Lefer,Svetlana Vogeleer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266804

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Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast by Marie-Aude Lefer,Svetlana Vogeleer Pdf

This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled multilingual parallel and comparable corpora to: (i) problematize cross-register variation in a multilingual perspective, (ii) address methodological and theoretical issues raised by register-oriented contrastive and translation studies, (iii) investigate the cross-linguistic and cross-genre variation of specific linguistic features, such as lexical bundles, sentence-initial adverbials and tag questions, (iv) identify cross-cultural and cross-linguistic dissimilarities in expressing a functional category, viz. Appraisal, in the field of opinion mining. The book offers new cutting-edge research that should be of interest to specialists in contrastive linguistics, translation studies and cross-cultural studies. Originally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014).

Author : Robert J. Di Pietro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Contrastive linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031479806

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Language Structures in Contrast by Robert J. Di Pietro Pdf

Author : Bas Aarts,April McMahon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405178402

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The Handbook of English Linguistics by Bas Aarts,April McMahon Pdf

The Handbook of English Linguistics is a collection ofarticles written by leading specialists on all core areas ofEnglish linguistics that provides a state-of-the-art account ofresearch in the field. Brings together articles from the core areas of Englishlinguistics, including syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, aswell as variation, discourse, stylistics and usage Written by specialists from around the world Provides an introduction to a key area of English Linguisticsand includes a discussion of the most recent theoretical anddescriptive research, as well as extensive bibliographicreferences

Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie,Elsa M. González Álvarez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290526

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Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison by María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie,Elsa M. González Álvarez Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004352193

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Responses to Marx's Capital by Anonim Pdf

Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources, translated from German and Russian, dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International.