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Subject(s)

• Emotive (Linguistics) [Browse]
• Language and emotions [Browse]
• English language—Grammar, Comparative—Chinese [Browse]
• Chinese language—Grammar, Comparative—English [Browse]
• Emotions—Cross-cultural studies [Browse]
• Comparative linguistics [Browse]
• Psycholinguistics [Browse]

Series

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora and a parallel corpus. The exploration adopts a unique theoretical approach which integrates corpus-linguistic theories on meaning (as a social construct, usage and paraphrase) with a corpus-linguistic lexical model. It employs a new complex but workable methodology which combines computational tools with manual examination to tease meaning out of corpus evidence, to compare and contrast lexical items that do not match up neatly between languages. It looks at sadness expressions both within and across languages in terms of three corpus-linguistic structural categories, i.e. colligation, collocation and semantic association/preference, and paraphrase (both explicit and implicit) to capture their subtle nuances of meaning, disclose the culture-specific conceptualisations encoded in them, and highlight their respective cultural distinctiveness of emotion. By presenting multidisciplinary original work, Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive lexical semantics, psychology, bilingual lexicography and language pedagogy"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Emotions
• 3. Contrastive lexical semantics
• 4. Corpus linguistics, parallel corpora and cross-linguistics research
• 5. The corpus-linguistic framework
• 6. Methodology
• 7. Contrastive analysis of sadness expressions in English and Chinese
• 8. Implications
• 9. Conclusion.

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ISBN

• 9781472510662 ((hardback))
• 1472510666 ((hardback))

LCCN

2014006174

OCLC

857981523

Other standard number

• 40023995559

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