Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Karin Aijmer, Diana Lewis

   Pages 1-9

3. Contrastive Analysis with Parallel Corpora

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Semantic Field of Obligation in an English-Swedish Contrastive Perspective

      • Karin Aijmer

      Pages 13-32

   3. English so and Dutch dus in a Parallel Corpus: An Investigation into Their Mutual Translatability

      • Lieven Buysse

      Pages 33-61

   4. What English Translation Equivalents Can Reveal about the Czech “Modal” Particle prý: A Cross-Register Study

      • Michaela Martinková, Markéta Janebová

      Pages 63-90

   5. Modal Adverbs of Certainty in EU Legal Discourse: A Parallel Corpus Approach

      • Magdalena Szczyrbak

      Pages 91-115

4. Contrastive Analysis with Comparable Corpora

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Adverbial Clauses in English and Norwegian Fiction and News

      • Hilde Hasselgård

      Pages 119-139

   3. Coherence Relations and Information Structure in English and French Political Speeches

      • Diana Lewis

      Pages 141-161

5. Contrastive Analysis Across Genres of English

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Callbacks in Stand-Up Comedy: Constructing Cohesion at the Macro Level Within a Specific Genre

      • Catherine Chauvin

      Pages 165-185

   3. Bush and Obama’s Addresses to the Arab World: Recontextualizing Stance in Political Discourse

      • Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Yasra Hanawi

      Pages 187-209

   4. The Role of Metadiscourse in Genre Analysis: Engagement Markers in Undergraduate Textbooks and Research Articles

      • Tereza Guziurová

      Pages 211-233

This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, a publication that addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language.

• co-referential chains
• contrastive analysis
• corpus linguistcs and pragmatics
• corpus linguistics applications in the arts and humanities
• information structure in political speeches
• legal discourse
• parallel corpus research on translatability
• parallell corpora
• pragmatic features of stance in political discourse
• pragmatics and genre
• semantic field of obligation
• translation studies

“In sum, this collection makes remarkable methodological and theoretical contributions to contrastive linguistics, discourse-pragmatic and genre studies. ... provide thought-provoking views on the discourse-pragmatics and text-constructing characteristics such as modals, evidentials, cohesion and coherent devices, etc ... .” (Weiqian Liu and Yi'na Wang, English Text Construction, Vol. 14 (1), 2021)



“The different chapters illustrate the variety of discourse-pragmatic topics that can be explored in corpus linguistics. Next to the quantitative refinement they allow for, corpora give access to authentic examples of language in context. This, in fact, is one of the assets of the book: not only do the contributors illustrate their points with many corpus examples, but they also provide detailed descriptions of these. … The contrastive perspective adds an interesting dimension to the volume … .” (Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Discourse Studies, Vol. 20 (04), 2018) “The volume edited by Aijmer and Lewis is an interesting and original contribution to the areas of pragmatics, discourse and genre studies. It achieves good balance between theory and practice. The chapters adopt a usage-based approach, exploiting a range of corpus material. Languages involved in the comparisons with English are Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. The book will make a valuable contribution to courses on corpus linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics and genre, discourse studies and the English language.”  (Anna Gladkova, University of Brighton, UK)

• University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  Karin Aijmer

• Department of English and Lerma Research Centre, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

  Diana Lewis

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