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Contrastive Lexical Semantics

Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Author: Edda Weigand
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027236763

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Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic linguistics. Whereas the rule-governed model-oriented approach is necessarily restricted to subsets of vocabulary, the pragmatic approach aims to analyse and describe the whole vocabulary-in-use. After the pragmatic turn, lexical semantics can no longer be seen as a discipline on its own but has to be developed as an integral part of a theory of language use. Essential features of individual languages can be discovered only by looking beyond the limits of our mother languages and including a contrastive perspective. Within a pragmatic, corpus-oriented approach essential new ideas are discussed, mainly the insight that single words can no longer be considered to be the lexical unit. It is the complex multi-word lexical unit a pragmatic approach has to deal with.


French-English Contrastive Lexicology

French-English Contrastive Lexicology
Author: J. van Roey
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789068312690

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(Peeters 1990)


Lexis in Contrast

Lexis in Contrast
Author: Bengt Altenberg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588110909

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This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields - contrastive linguistics, lexicology, lexicography, terminology, computational linguistics and machine translation. The articles in the volume, which cover a wide diversity of languages, are divided into four main sections: the exploration of cross-linguistic equivalence, contrastive lexical semantics, corpus-based multilingual lexicography, and translation and parallel concordancing. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to recent trends in contrastive lexical studies written by the editors of the volume, Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger.


Meaning Through Language Contrast

Meaning Through Language Contrast
Author: Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027251207

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In four parts, this title deals with: grammaticalization; metaphor in contrast; cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts; and the semantics/pragmatics boundary - theory and applications.


Contrastive Analysis in Language

Contrastive Analysis in Language
Author: D. Willems
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 023052463X

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This is a book about comparison in linguistics in general, rather than 'contrastive analysis' as a distinct branch of linguistics. It addresses the question 'Does the analytical apparatus used by linguists allow comparisons to be made across languages?' Four major domains are considered in turn: derivational morphology, syntax, semantics & pragmatics, and discourse. Contributions cover a broad spectrum of linguistic disciplines, ranging from contrastive linguistics and linguistic typology to translation studies and historical linguistics.


Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
Author: Hans Christian Boas
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027204322

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The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.


Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics

Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics
Author: María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2008-12-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027289689

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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.


Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics

Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics
Author: Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 1996
Genre: Contrastive linguistics
ISBN: 9780080427713

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The following topics have been inadequately addressed so far by the linguistics community: bull; the character of the semantics/pragmatics interface; bull; the use of contrastive semantic and pragmatic phenomena in the construction of linguistic theories; bull; the methods and techniques employed in contrastive studies; bull; the applications of such studies in fields such as language teaching and learning and natural language processing.In response to the need to address these issues, the First International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics was held at the University of Brighton on the 6th to the 9th of April 1995. Selected papers from the conference are presented here in two timely volumes, and represent current research on these important topics by leading authorities in the field.


Crossroads between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation

Crossroads between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation
Author: Oliver Czulo
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 214
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3946234267

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Contrastive Linguistics (CL), Translation Studies (TS) and Machine Translation (MT) have common grounds: They all work at the crossroad where two or more languages meet. Despite their inherent relatedness, methodological exchange between the three disciplines is rare. This special issue touches upon areas where the three fields converge. It results directly from a workshop at the 2011 German Association for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (GSCL) conference in Hamburg where researchers from the three fields presented and discussed their interdisciplinary work. While the studies contained in this volume draw from a wide variety of objectives and methods, and various areas of overlaps between CL, TS and MT are addressed, the volume is by no means exhaustive with regard to this topic. Further cross-fertilisation is not only desirable, but almost mandatory in order to tackle future tasks and endeavours.}


Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics

Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics
Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027286507

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Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong theoretical purpose, contributing to our understanding of language typology and language universals. Issues in theoretical CL, which also feature in this volume, are the choice of model, the notions of equivalence and contrast, and directionality of descriptions. Languages used for illustration in this volume include English, German, Danish, and Polish.