Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translati
Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse (Corpus and Discourse)
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- 2024
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β¦ Synopsis
Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline. Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of language registers from newspaper reporting and spoken political discourse to film scripts and football match reports. Using English as the pivot language for each chapter, the volume offers contrastive bilingual and trilingual perspectives on a number of languages, including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, covering a typologically diverse field. By exploring the application of complex multi-genre multilingual data sets and expanding the horizons of contrastive studies, it demonstrates how a juxtaposition of cross-linguistic and register variation can deepen our insight into language variation and use. The volume is dedicated to two prominent contrastive corpus linguists: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, who have decisively shaped the discipline from its very beginnings. The book opens with a chapter by Aijmer, reflecting on the current breadth and future prospects of research in the area while pointing to emergent trends with an insight that only she can offer.
β¦ Table of Contents
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Present Status and Recent Trends in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics
Part I: Lexicogrammar in Contrast
Chapter 2: Seeing Through Languages and Registers: A Closer Look at the Cognates see and se
Chapter 3: Periphrastic Genitive Constructions in English and Norwegian
Chapter 4: Double Object Constructions in English and Norwegian: Verbs of sending, bringing, lending and selling
Chapter 5: Prepositional Patterns in English and Czech Newspaper Discourse
Chapter 6: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Journalistic Phraseology
Chapter 7: Corpus-Based Contrast in Audiovisual Customization: A Pilot Study on Can/Could and Subject Pronouns in Spanish Dubbing
Part II: Discourse in Contrast
Chapter 8: The Social Functions and Linguistic Patterns of Please and Its Norwegian Correspondences
Chapter 9: Discourse Connectives in English and French: A Contrastive Study on Political Discourse
Chapter 10: Reporting Verbs in English, Czech and Finnish
Chapter 11: From Dashes to Dashes? β A Contrastive Corpus Study of Dashes in English, German and Swedish
Index
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