Contrasting English and other languages through corpora / edited by Markéta Janebová, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Michaela Martinková.

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English
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  • Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
  • ©2017
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xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    This volume is grounded on the latest research in empirical contrastive language studies, addressing several issues on contrasts between English and other languages. It results from an annual workshop on language constrasts, organised by the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), and covers a wider range of phenomena in phraseology, discourse and pragmatics. As it relies on data from parallel or comparable corpora, it gives valuable insights into cross-linguistic differences between English and other languages, which might otherwise go unnoticed. The book will be useful to experts on language studies and advanced students with an interest in linguistics. It will serve as a catalyst to other researchers interested in the contrastive analysis of the English language. The results of the linguistic analyses described within will be valuable for practical applications in lexicography, language teaching and translation (both human and machine), including translator training.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Part I. Contrasts in phraseology
    • A cross-linguistic comparison of recurrent word combinations in a comparable corpus of English and Norwegian fiction
    • Contrasts in Morphology: the case of UP/DOWN and IN/OUT as bound morphemes in Swedish and their English correspondences
    • Temporal expressions in English and Norwegian
    • Part II. Discourse-related phenomena in contrast
    • Sentence-initial and/og in English and Norwegian
    • Statistical insights into cohesion: contrasting English and German across modes
    • Part III. Exploring pragmatic functions with parallel corpora
    • NP-internal kind of and sort of: evidence from an English-Czech parallel translation corpus
    • "I highly commend its efforts to ensure power supply": exploring the pragmatics of textual voices in Chinese and English CSR reports.
    ISBN
    • 1443896012 (hardback)
    • 9781443896016 (hardback)
    OCLC
    992506035
    Other standard number
    • 99973800571
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