Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics : Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson.
This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres - news reports and commentaries - in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain cla...
| Основен автор: | Aijmer, Karin. |
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| Други автори: | Altenberg, Bengt. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Серия: |
Studies in corpus linguistics.
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Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics : Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson. |
Съдържание:
- Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dediction page; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora; 1. Introduction; 2. Types of equivalence and tertia comparationis; 3. The semantic field of 'betweenness'; 4. French and English translated tokens compared; 5. Summary and conclusion; References; Seeing the lexical profile of Swedish through multilingual corpora; 1. Introduction; 2. Motion verbs: from general typology to contrastive comparison; 3. The Multilingual Parallel Corpus.
- 4. Profiled and un-profiled movement on foot5. Swedish aka; 6. Swedish fara; 7. The Swedish verb kora; 8. A comparison of the inventories of general vehicle verbs; 9. A contrasting usage pattern: Finnish lahtea; 10. Conclusion; Electronic sources; References; Appendix 1; A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish; 1. Introduction; 2. Affixal negation in English and Spanish; 3. Method and procedure; 4. The study; 5. Control data: the CREA corpus; 6. Conclusions; References; English adverbs of essence and their equivalents in Dutch and French; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Main findings in Butler (2008a, 2008b, 2008c)3. The adverbs illustrated; 4. Equivalents of the adverbs in French; 5. Equivalents of the adverbs in Dutch; 6. Discussion and conclusions; References; A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change; 1. Translation and linguistic change; 2. Translation and the diachronic evolution of pragmatic markers; 3. The parallel corpus approach; 4. Context and meaning, Gricean GCIs and PCIs; 5. The case of quand meme; 6. Evidence from three parallel corpora; 7. Conclusions; Corpora consulted; Youngspeak Spanish vale and English okay.
- 1. Introduction2. The pragmatic markers; 3. Three levels; 4. Frequencies; 5. Conclusions; References; Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and method; 3. Do English and French tend to use imprecision around numbers denoting quantities to the same extent?; 4. Semantic tendencies in BENews and FRENews; 5. Grammatical categories in BENews and FRENews; 6. The company approximators tend to keep in BENews and FRENews; 7. Conclusion; References.
- Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English-French bilingual dictionaries1. Introduction; 2. Data and methodology; 3. Lexical bundles with encore and yet: dictionaries vs. corpus data; 4. Enriching the translations with bilingual corpus data; 5. Conclusion; References; Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences; 1. Introduction; 2. From recurrent word-combinations to phraseology; 3. Material and method; 4. Methodological issues; 5. Case study no. 1
- PREP det ADJ; 6. Case study no. 2
- all the way and all the same.
- 7. Case study no. 3
- Time expressions.