Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison
Editors
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | pp. vii–xiv
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Introduction | pp. xv–xxii
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Part I. Information structure
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Theme zones in contrast: An analysis of their linguistic realization in the communicative act of a non-acceptanceAnita Fetzer | pp. 3–31
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Last things first: An FDG approach to clause-final focus constituents in Spanish and EnglishMike Hannay and Elena Martínez Caro | pp. 33–68
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Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentencesJeanette K. Gundel | pp. 69–87
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The position of adverbials and the pragmatic organization of the sentence: A comparison of French and DutchIlse Magnus | pp. 89–120
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Part II. Lexis in contrast
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Swedish verbs of perception from a typological and contrastive perspectiveÅke Viberg | pp. 123–172
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'Abroad' and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan (Ghana)Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo | pp. 173–191
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The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy talesGabrina Pounds | pp. 193–219
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The feminine stereotype in gay characterization: A look at English and SpanishFélix Rodríguez González | pp. 221–243
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Part III. Contrastive perspectives on SLA
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Communicative tasks across languages: Movie narratives in English, in English as a foreign language and in GermanAndreas H. Jucker | pp. 247–274
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Linguistic theory and bilingual systems: Simultaneous and sequential English/Spanish bilingualismRaquel Fernández Fuertes, Juana M. Liceras and Esther A. de la Fuente | pp. 275–297
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Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonemic learning in EFLEdward Dalley Benson and María del Pilar García Mayo | pp. 299–326
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Contrastive intonation and error analysis: Tonality and tonicity in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of EnglishFrancisco Gutiérrez Díez | pp. 327–354
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Author index | pp. 355–357
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Index of languages | p. 359
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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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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General