Table of contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part I. Information structure
Theme zones in contrast: An analysis of their linguistic realization in the communicative act of a non-acceptance
Last things first: An FDG approach to clause-final focus constituents in Spanish and English
Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentences
The position of adverbials and the pragmatic organization of the sentence: A comparison of French and Dutch
Part II. Lexis in contrast
Swedish verbs of perception from a typological and contrastive perspective
'Abroad' and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan (Ghana)
The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy tales
The feminine stereotype in gay characterization: A look at English and Spanish
Part III. Contrastive perspectives on SLA
Communicative tasks across languages: Movie narratives in English, in English as a foreign language and in German
Linguistic theory and bilingual systems: Simultaneous and sequential English/Spanish bilingualism
Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonemic learning in EFL
Contrastive intonation and error analysis: Tonality and tonicity in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of English
Author index
Index of languages359
Index of terms
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