Meaning Through Language Contrast

Volume 2

Editors

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

| University of Cambridge

Ken Turner

| University of Brighton

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ISBN 9789027251206 (Eur) | EUR 138.00

ISBN 9781588112071 (USA) | USD 207.00

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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 Gutiérrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Márta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 100] 2003. viii, 496 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.100

Table of Contents

Grammaticalization	1
Distal aspects in Bantu languages Steve Nicolle	3–22
From temporal to conditional: Italian qualora vs English whenever Jacqueline Visconti	23–50
Then — adverbial pro-form or inference particle?: A comparative study of English, Ewe, Hungarian, and Norwegian Thorstein Fretheim, Stella Boateng and Ildikó Vaskó	51–74
The polysemy of the Swedish verb komma ‘come’: A view from translation corpora Åke Viberg	75–105
Metaphor in contrast	107
Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpus Kay Wikberg	109–123
Cross-language metaphors: Conceptual or pragmatic variation? Andreas Musolff	125–139
A contrastive cognitive perspective on Malay and English figurative language Jonathan Charteris-Black	141–157
Metaphorical expressions in English and Spanish stock market journalistic texts Anna Espunya and Patrick Zabalbeascoa	159–180
Cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts	181
Directions of regulation in speech act theory Susumu Kubo	183–195
On Japanese ne and Chinese ba Mutsuko Endo Hudson and Ronald Geluykens	197–212
‘I am asking for a pen’: Framing of requests in black South African English Luanga A. Kasanga	213–235
Cultural scripts for French and Romanian thanking behaviour Tine Van Hecke	237–250
Sociocultural variation in native and interlanguage complaints Ronald Geluykens and Bettina Kraft	251–261
A cross-cultural study of requests: The case of British and Japanese undergraduates Saeko Fukushima	263–275
Questions as indirect requests in Russian and Czech Michael Betsch	277–290
The language of love in Melanesia: A study of positive emotions Les Bruce	291–329
Everyday rituals in Polish and English Ewa Jakubowska	331–343
A question of time? Question types and speech act shifts from a historical-contrastive perspective: Some examples from Old Spanish and Middle English Verena Jung and Angela Schrott	345–371
The contrasts between contrasters: What discussion groups can tell us about discourse pragmatics Piibi-Kai Kivik and Krista Vogelberg	373–401
The semantics/pragmatics boundary: Theory and applications	403
Cross-linguistic implementations of specificity Klaus von Heusinger	405–421
The semantics–pragmatics interface: The case of grounding Esam N. Khalil	423–440
On translating ‘What is said’: Tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmatics Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt	441–462
Translation equivalents as empirical data for semantic/pragmatic theory Bergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen	463–476
Language index	477–479
Name index	481–482
Subject index	483–487
Contents of Volume 1	489–491

Subjects

Linguistics

Comparative linguistics

Pragmatics

Semantics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002074427