Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison

Editors

María de los Ángeles Gómez González | University of Santiago de Compostela

J. Lachlan Mackenzie | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Elsa M. González Álvarez | University of Santiago de Compostela

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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.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 175] 2008. xxii, 364 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 September 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.175

Table of Contents

Contributors | pp. vii–xiv

Introduction | pp. xv–xxii

Part I. Information structure

Theme zones in contrast: An analysis of their linguistic realization in the communicative act of a non-acceptance

Anita Fetzer | pp. 3–31

Last things first: An FDG approach to clause-final focus constituents in Spanish and English

Mike Hannay and Elena Martínez Caro | pp. 33–68

Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentences

Jeanette K. Gundel | pp. 69–87

The position of adverbials and the pragmatic organization of the sentence: A comparison of French and Dutch

Ilse Magnus | pp. 89–120

Part II. Lexis in contrast

Swedish verbs of perception from a typological and contrastive perspective

Åke Viberg | pp. 123–172

'Abroad' and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan (Ghana)

Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo | pp. 173–191

The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy tales

Gabrina Pounds | pp. 193–219

The feminine stereotype in gay characterization: A look at English and Spanish

Félix Rodríguez González | pp. 221–243

Part III. Contrastive perspectives on SLA

Communicative tasks across languages: Movie narratives in English, in English as a foreign language and in German

Andreas H. Jucker | pp. 247–274

Linguistic theory and bilingual systems: Simultaneous and sequential English/Spanish bilingualism

Raquel Fernández Fuertes, Juana M. Liceras and Esther A. de la Fuente | pp. 275–297

Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonemic learning in EFL

Edward Dalley Benson and María del Pilar García Mayo | pp. 299–326

Contrastive intonation and error analysis: Tonality and tonicity in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of English

Francisco Gutiérrez Díez | pp. 327–354

Author index | pp. 355–357

Index of languages | p. 359

Index of terms | pp. 361–364

“[...] the book should make for interesting reading for a wide and diverse readership. Besides the variety of languages, themes, approaches and data represented, its assets include the extensive use of glosses to help understand non-English examples, a well-balanced structure (four articles in each part) and detailed indexes. Particularly noteworthy too is the inclusion of under-researched topics, as well as the consideration for SLA and cultural aspects [...]. More generally, the book makes a good job of showing that contrastive linguistics is opening up to new fields and new themes, and will hopefully encourage to develop these (and other) relationships even further.”

Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Université catholique de Louvain, in Language in Contrast Vol. 11:1 (2011)

“This volume is a valuable contribution to scholars dealing with the pragmatics of syntax, semantics and phonology within the field of contrastive linguistics. But this volume is more than that; general linguists may also benefit from reading the many sound analyses.”

Bert Cornillie (K.U. Leuven) and Marlén Izquierdo (Universidad de León), in Functions of Language Vol. 18:2 (2011)

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