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Contrastive Lexical Semantics

Author : Edda Weigand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027236763
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrastive Lexical Semantics by : Edda Weigand

Download or read book Contrastive Lexical Semantics written by Edda Weigand and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Some Problems of Contrastive Lexical Semantics

Author : Martin Durrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis Some Problems of Contrastive Lexical Semantics by : Martin Durrell

Download or read book Some Problems of Contrastive Lexical Semantics written by Martin Durrell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French-English Contrastive Lexicology

Author : J. van Roey
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789068312690
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Book Synopsis French-English Contrastive Lexicology by : J. van Roey

Download or read book French-English Contrastive Lexicology written by J. van Roey and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1990)

Lexis in Contrast

Author : Bengt Altenberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588110909
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Lexis in Contrast by : Bengt Altenberg

Download or read book Lexis in Contrast written by Bengt Altenberg and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Meaning Through Language Contrast

Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027251207
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Meaning Through Language Contrast by : Katarzyna Jaszczolt

Download or read book Meaning Through Language Contrast written by Katarzyna Jaszczolt and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272328
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics by : Karin Aijmer

Download or read book Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics written by Karin Aijmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail and empirical strength than before. The approach has also proved to have fruitful practical applications in a number of areas such as language teaching, lexicography, translation studies and computer-aided translation. This volume contains twelve studies comparing linguistic phenomena in English and seven other languages. The topics range from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure. The studies highlight similarities and differences in the use, semantics and functions of the compared items, as well as the emergence of new meanings and language change. The emphasis varies from purely linguistic studies to those focusing on practical applications.

Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics

Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289689
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics by : María de los Ángeles Gómez González

Download or read book Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics written by María de los Ángeles Gómez González and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contrastive Analysis in Language

Author : D. Willems
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023052463X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrastive Analysis in Language by : D. Willems

Download or read book Contrastive Analysis in Language written by D. Willems and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about comparison in linguistics in general, rather than 'contrastive analysis' as a distinct branch of linguistics. It addresses the question 'Does the analytical apparatus used by linguists allow comparisons to be made across languages?' Four major domains are considered in turn: derivational morphology, syntax, semantics & pragmatics, and discourse. Contributions cover a broad spectrum of linguistic disciplines, ranging from contrastive linguistics and linguistic typology to translation studies and historical linguistics.

Contrasting Languages

Author : Tomasz P. Krzeszowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110121339
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrasting Languages by : Tomasz P. Krzeszowski

Download or read book Contrasting Languages written by Tomasz P. Krzeszowski and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Contrasting Languages".

New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics

Author : Renata Enghels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110682672
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics by : Renata Enghels

Download or read book New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics written by Renata Enghels and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Issue of the Lexical Unit - Using Selected Examples of English and German Verbs

Author : Sebastian Feller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638625656
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Book Synopsis The Issue of the Lexical Unit - Using Selected Examples of English and German Verbs by : Sebastian Feller

Download or read book The Issue of the Lexical Unit - Using Selected Examples of English and German Verbs written by Sebastian Feller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: In the light of de Saussure’s definition of the linguistic sign and Chomskyan generative grammar, a great number of Linguists1 of the second half of the 20th century used to define language primarily in terms of an artificially constructed autonomous sign system. From this traditional point of view, the field of linguistics did not see beyond the construct it had created resulting in the deformation of the object of study, language-in-use. The pragmatic turn of the 1960s brought along what one might call the ‘Copernican revolution’ in linguistics. In this connection, Martinet pointed at one of the most fundamental prerequisites of well-conducted scientific research, in that he rejected firmly any scientific proceeding that sacrifices the integrity of the object of study to methodological exigencies. On the contrary, the object itself, language in use, dictates to a great extent the methodology of the researcher. In the course of this treatise, I discuss, in the context of the above-mentioned assumptions, the issue of the lexical unit. Thereby, I will concentrate on the two conflicting definitions given, on the one hand, in the form of the one-word lexical unit and, on the other, in the form the multi-word unit. During my argumentation, I attempt to provide sufficient evidence in favour of the multi-word lexical unit showing that the equation of the single word with a unit of meaning needs to be overcome ultimately. This treatise comprises both a theoretical and an empirical part. The former lays the theoretical foundation for the empirical investigation put forward in the course of the methodological section. After the obligatory sketch of the research background, I introduce the reader to the basic assumptions of Weigand’s pragmatic model. Looking at lexical semantics, the universal level of contrastive studies is kept in the foreground. In this context, I primarily concentrate on the definition of predicating fields and meaning positions as well as the principle of meaning equivalence. In addition, the theoretical introduction will offer some preliminary remarks on the expression side.

Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027286507
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics by : Jacek Fisiak

Download or read book Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics written by Jacek Fisiak and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

Author : Hans Christian Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027204322
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar by : Hans Christian Boas

Download or read book Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar written by Hans Christian Boas and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.

Crossroads between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation

Author : Oliver Czulo
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234267
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossroads between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation by : Oliver Czulo

Download or read book Crossroads between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation written by Oliver Czulo and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrastive Linguistics (CL), Translation Studies (TS) and Machine Translation (MT) have common grounds: They all work at the crossroad where two or more languages meet. Despite their inherent relatedness, methodological exchange between the three disciplines is rare. This special issue touches upon areas where the three fields converge. It results directly from a workshop at the 2011 German Association for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (GSCL) conference in Hamburg where researchers from the three fields presented and discussed their interdisciplinary work. While the studies contained in this volume draw from a wide variety of objectives and methods, and various areas of overlaps between CL, TS and MT are addressed, the volume is by no means exhaustive with regard to this topic. Further cross-fertilisation is not only desirable, but almost mandatory in order to tackle future tasks and endeavours.}

Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency

Author : Lars Hellan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266093
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency by : Lars Hellan

Download or read book Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency written by Lars Hellan and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, involving reflexives, cognate objects, ’null’ objects, case (in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects), and infinitives, mostly in a synchronic perspective. Aiming at a closer understanding of the range of regularities falling within the concept of valency frames, the book offers a representative array of current assumptions, hypotheses, methodologies and new findings within the overall field. The volume will provide a valuable resource for researchers and students both in general linguistics and in the relevant language particular disciplines.

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Barbara Dancygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108146139
Total Pages : 1427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by : Barbara Dancygier

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics written by Barbara Dancygier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 1427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.

Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese

Author : Ruihua Zhang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472507673
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Book Synopsis Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese by : Ruihua Zhang

Download or read book Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese written by Ruihua Zhang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Tianjin Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora and a parallel corpus. The exploration adopts a unique theoretical approach which integrates corpus-linguistic theories on meaning (as a social construct, usage and paraphrase) with a corpus-linguistic lexical model. It employs a new complex but workable methodology which combines computational tools with manual examination to tease meaning out of corpus evidence, to compare and contrast lexical items that do not match up neatly between languages. It looks at sadness expressions both within and across languages in terms of three corpus-linguistic structural categories, i.e. colligation, collocation and semantic association/preference, and paraphrase (both explicit and implicit) to capture their subtle nuances of meaning, disclose the culture-specific conceptualisations encoded in them, and highlight their respective cultural distinctiveness of emotion. By presenting multidisciplinary original work, Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive lexical semantics, psychology, bilingual lexicography and language pedagogy.