Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison
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Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison: (175 Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)


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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.

Table of Contents:
1. Contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Information structure; 4. Theme zones in contrast: An analysis of their linguistic realization in the communicative act of a non-acceptance (by Fetzer, Anita); 5. Last things first: An FDG approach to clause-final focus constituents in Spanish and English (by Hannay, Mike); 6. Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentences (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 7. The position of adverbials and the pragmatic organization of the sentence: A comparison of French and Dutch (by Magnus, Ilse); 8. Part II. Lexis in contrast; 9. Swedish verbs of perception from a typological and contrastive perspective (by Viberg, Ake); 10. 'Abroad' and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan (Ghana) (by Fretheim, Thorstein); 11. The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy tales (by Pounds, Gabrina); 12. The feminine stereotype in gay characterization: A look at English and Spanish (by Rodriguez Gonzalez, Felix); 13. Part III. Contrastive perspectives on SLA; 14. Communicative tasks across languages: Movie narratives in English, in English as a foreign language and in German (by Jucker, Andreas H.); 15. Linguistic theory and bilingual systems: Simultaneous and sequential English/Spanish bilingualism (by Fernandez Fuertes, Raquel); 16. Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonemic learning in EFL (by Benson, Edward Dalley); 17. Contrastive intonation and error analysis: Tonality and tonicity in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of English (by Diez, Francisco Gutierrez); 18. Author index; 19. Index of languages; 20. Index of terms

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[...] 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. 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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789027254191
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Height: 245 mm
  • No of Pages: 392
  • Series Title: 175 Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9027254192
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 392
  • Weight: 840 gr


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