Overview
- Offers insights on how corpus-based research can contribute to our knowledge of linguistic features and genres
- Articles present findings on several European languages
- Encourages further research in more languages, genres, and using different types of corpora
Part of the book series: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics (YCLP, volume 5)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Contrastive Analysis with Parallel Corpora
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Contrastive Analysis with Comparable Corpora
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Contrastive Analysis Across Genres of English
Keywords
- 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
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Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres
Editors: Karin Aijmer, Diana Lewis
Series Title: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54556-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54554-7Published: 06 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85422-9Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54556-1Published: 29 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2213-6819
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6827
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 233
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Comparative Literature