Theoretical Issues In Contrastive Linguistics

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 450 pages
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Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286505

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Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong theoretical purpose, contributing to our understanding of language typology and language universals. Issues in theoretical CL, which also feature in this volume, are the choice of model, the notions of equivalence and contrast, and directionality of descriptions. Languages used for illustration in this volume include English, German, Danish, and Polish.

Author : Stig Eliasson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Contrastive linguistics
ISBN : UCAL:B4391170

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Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Phonology by Stig Eliasson Pdf

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027215352

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Further Insights Into Contrastive Analysis by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

After a period of crisis in the 1960s, Contrastive Analysis has now regained its firm position, although in a different form and with broader goals. This collection of papers reflects the scope of research and the range of interest of linguists who are involved in contrastive linguistics research. The volume contains 35 contributions by 37 authors from 13 different countries and includes an Index of names and an Index of terms.

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110824025

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Contrastive Linguistics by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Tomasz P. Krzeszowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110860146

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Contrasting Languages by Tomasz P. Krzeszowski Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Wenguo Pan,Tham Wai Mun
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015070695054

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Contrastive Linguistics by Wenguo Pan,Tham Wai Mun Pdf

Contrastive Linguistics is the first book written by a linguist from mainland China on the histories and principles of comparing and contrasting Chinese and Western languages, specifically English. From Wilhelm von Humboldt's initial study in comparative linguistics to the present day, traditional scholarship in contrastive linguistics has taken a Western perspective and shown how foreign languages relate to the Indo-European language family. However, such a view has a limited scope, and there is an alternative history to contrastive linguistics. This book is an attempt by Professor Wenguo Pan to redress the balance in contrastive linguistics, comparing Western languages to Chinese, rather than vice versa. He provides a survey of contrastive linguistics in China throughtout the past century, and aims to open a window for the world to see what the new generations of Chinese linguists are doing in this exciting field, and to start a dialogue between scholars of different backgrounds and linguistic traditions. Contrastive Linguistics looks at the history of this discipline both in Europe and in China. Professor Pan presents a survey of the historical, philosophical and methodological foundations of the discipline, but also examines its scope in relation to general, comparative, anthropological and applied linguistics. This book will be of interest to academics interested in a new perspective on contrastive linguistics or Chinese linguistics.

Author : Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350079199

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Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax by Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou Pdf

Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.

Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie,Elsa M. González Álvarez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289681

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Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics by María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie,Elsa M. González Álvarez Pdf

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 : Ping Ke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811313851

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Contrastive Linguistics by Ping Ke Pdf

This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and practice. It discusses the principles and methods, and contrasts English, Chinese, German, and other languages at phonological, lexical, grammatical, textual, and pragmatic levels, focusing more on the useful insights contrastive analysis provides into real-world problems in fields such as applied linguistics, translation and translation studies, English or Chinese as a foreign language, and communication than on the discipline itself.

Author : Christopher Butler,María A. Gómez-González,Susana María Doval Suárez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277800

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Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

After a period of crisis in the 1960s, Contrastive Analysis has now regained its firm position, although in a different form and with broader goals. This collection of papers reflects the scope of research and the range of interest of linguists who are involved in contrastive linguistics research. The volume contains 35 contributions by 37 authors from 13 different countries and includes an Index of names and an Index of terms.

Author : Doris Schönefeld
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223876

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Converging Evidence by Doris Schönefeld Pdf

The volume argues for the use of multi-methodological strategies in linguistic research. In its lead chapter, in addition, the thorny issue of phenomenological pluralism is explored in detail. From a usage-based perspective, the individual chapters demonstrate methodological pluralism in the investigation of meaning, language acquisition, and discourse. The chapters report on studies in which the use of corpus data is combined with other methodological tools, e.g. experimentally elicited findings, showing how introspection and the analysis of performance data go hand in hand to provide empirical support for researchers hypotheses. Some of the authors inspire the discussion in usage-based linguistics, proposing innovative methods of analysis. Others adopt such methods and combine them in original ways. The cutting-edge studies presented in this volume should be of great interest to scholars and students of cognitive and corpus linguistics who want to familiarize themselves with recent methodological advances and their applications in the field."

Author : Renata Enghels,Bart Defrancq,Marlies Jansegers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110682670

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New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics by Renata Enghels,Bart Defrancq,Marlies Jansegers Pdf

The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two main challenges that had not yet been fully addressed in the literature, namely an empirical assessment of the nature of the data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (e.g. translation data versus comparable data), and the development of advanced methods and statistical techniques suitably adapted to contrastive research settings. The papers collected in this volume endeavour to find out what (new) types of data are most useful for what kind of contrastive questions, and which advanced statistical techniques are most suited to deal with the multidimensionality of contrastive research questions. Answers to these questions are provided through the contrastive analysis of various language pairs or groups, and a wide variety of phenomena situated at almost all linguistic levels. In sum, this book provides an update on new methodological and theoretical insights in empirical contrastive linguistics and will stimulate further research within this field.

Author : Edda Weigand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275639

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Contrastive Lexical Semantics by Edda Weigand Pdf

Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic linguistics. Whereas the rule-governed model-oriented approach is necessarily restricted to subsets of vocabulary, the pragmatic approach aims to analyse and describe the whole vocabulary-in-use. After the pragmatic turn, lexical semantics can no longer be seen as a discipline on its own but has to be developed as an integral part of a theory of language use. Essential features of individual languages can be discovered only by looking beyond the limits of our mother languages and including a contrastive perspective. Within a pragmatic, corpus-oriented approach essential new ideas are discussed, mainly the insight that single words can no longer be considered to be the lexical unit. It is the complex multi-word lexical unit a pragmatic approach has to deal with.

Author : Marie-Aude Lefer,Svetlana Vogeleer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,8 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).