Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics
Functional and cognitive perspectives
Editors
| University of Santiago de Compostela
| VU University Amsterdam
| University of Santiago de Compostela
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.
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 60] 2008. xxi, 333 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Contributors
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vii–xi
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Abbreviations used in glosses
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xiii
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xv–xxi
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Part I. Grammatical categories in contrast
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3–26
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27–50
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51–75
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77–98
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Part II. Contrastive linguistics and corpus studies
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101–121
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123–145
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147–176
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177–201
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Part III. Meaning and cognition from a contrastive perspective
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205–226
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227–250
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251–280
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281–321
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Index of terms
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323–327
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Index of languages
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329–330
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Index of scholars
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331–333
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“[...] this volume offers an interesting survey of the many functional, cognitive-linguistic and corpus-based approaches to CA available at present.”
René Dirven, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 7 (2009).
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General