Contrastive Corpus Linguistics
Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse
Published on 30. May 2024
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-350-38593-1 (ISBN)
Description
Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline.
Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of language registers from newspaper reporting and spoken political discourse to film scripts and football match reports. Using English as the pivot language for each chapter, the volume offers contrastive bilingual and trilingual perspectives on a number of languages, including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, covering a typologically diverse field. By exploring the application of complex multi-genre multilingual data sets and expanding the horizons of contrastive studies, it demonstrates how a juxtaposition of cross-linguistic and register variation can deepen our insight into language variation and use.
The volume is dedicated to two prominent contrastive corpus linguists: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, who have decisively shaped the discipline from its very beginnings. The book opens with a chapter by Aijmer, reflecting on the current breadth and future prospects of research in the area while pointing to emergent trends with an insight that only she can offer.
Focusing on a diversity of methods and approaches to language comparison, it uses both comparable and translation corpora, and explores a broad range of language registers from newspaper reporting and spoken political discourse to film scripts and football match reports. Using English as the pivot language for each chapter, the volume offers contrastive bilingual and trilingual perspectives on a number of languages, including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, covering a typologically diverse field. By exploring the application of complex multi-genre multilingual data sets and expanding the horizons of contrastive studies, it demonstrates how a juxtaposition of cross-linguistic and register variation can deepen our insight into language variation and use.
The volume is dedicated to two prominent contrastive corpus linguists: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, who have decisively shaped the discipline from its very beginnings. The book opens with a chapter by Aijmer, reflecting on the current breadth and future prospects of research in the area while pointing to emergent trends with an insight that only she can offer.
Reviews / Votes
Contrastive Corpus Linguistics stands as a tribute to the power of corpus-based methods in unravelling the complexities of language use. The hybrid nature of scholarly discussions makes the volume an essential resource for would-be scholars interested in the intersection of linguistics, translation studies, and discourse analysis ... The volume offers a balanced and multifaceted perspective, both empirically rigorous and theoretically insightful. * LINGUIST List *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-38593-1 (9781350385931)
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Anna Cermakova | Hilde Hasselgard | Marketa Mala
Contrastive Corpus Linguistics
Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse
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05/2024
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Anna Cermakova | Hilde Hasselgard | Marketa Mala
Contrastive Corpus Linguistics
Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse
E-Book
05/2024
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€31.99
Available for download
Persons
Anna Cermakova is Senior Researcher at the Lancaster University, UK and Charles University, Czech Republic.
Hilde Hasselgard is Professor of English Language at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Marketa Mala is Associate Professor of English Language at Charles University, Czech Republic.
Denisa Sebestova is Lecturer at Charles University, Czech Republic.
Hilde Hasselgard is Professor of English Language at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Marketa Mala is Associate Professor of English Language at Charles University, Czech Republic.
Denisa Sebestova is Lecturer at Charles University, Czech Republic.
Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK), Hilde Hasselgard (University of Oslo, Norway), Marketa Mala (Charles University, Czech Republic) and Denisa Sebestova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
1. The State of the Art and Recent Trends in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics, Karin Aijmer (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Part I. Lexico-Grammar in Contrast
2. Seeing through Languages and Registers: A Closer Look at the Cognates See and Se, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway)
3. Periphrastic Genitive Constructions in English and Norwegian, Hilde Hasselgard (University of Oslo, Norway)
4. Double Object Constructions in English and Norwegian: Verbs of Sending, Bringing, Lending and Selling, Thomas Egan (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
5. Prepositional Patterns in English and Czech Newspaper Discourse, Denisa Sebestova and Marketa Mala (Charles University, Czech Republic)
6. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Journalistic Phraseology, Jiajin Xu, Guying Zhou, Xinlu Liu, Yuanyuan Wei, Ruchen Yu and Suhua Zhang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
7. Corpus-Based Contrast in Audiovisual Customization: A Pilot Study on Can/Could and Subject Pronouns in Spanish Dubbing, Camino Gutierrez-Lanza and Rosa Rabadan (Universidad de Leon, Spain)
Part II. Discourse in Contrast
8. The Social Functions and Linguistic Patterns of Please and its Norwegian Correspondences, Stine Hulleberg Johansen and Kristin Rygg (University of Oslo and Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
9. Discourse Connectives in English and French: A Contrastive Study on Political Discourse, Diana Lewis (Aix Marseille Universite, France)
10. Reporting Verbs in English, Czech and Finnish, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK) and Lenka Farova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
11. From Dashes to Dashes? A Contrastive Corpus Study of Dashes in English, German and Swedish, Jenny Stroem Herold and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Index
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK), Hilde Hasselgard (University of Oslo, Norway), Marketa Mala (Charles University, Czech Republic) and Denisa Sebestova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
1. The State of the Art and Recent Trends in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics, Karin Aijmer (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Part I. Lexico-Grammar in Contrast
2. Seeing through Languages and Registers: A Closer Look at the Cognates See and Se, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway)
3. Periphrastic Genitive Constructions in English and Norwegian, Hilde Hasselgard (University of Oslo, Norway)
4. Double Object Constructions in English and Norwegian: Verbs of Sending, Bringing, Lending and Selling, Thomas Egan (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
5. Prepositional Patterns in English and Czech Newspaper Discourse, Denisa Sebestova and Marketa Mala (Charles University, Czech Republic)
6. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Journalistic Phraseology, Jiajin Xu, Guying Zhou, Xinlu Liu, Yuanyuan Wei, Ruchen Yu and Suhua Zhang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
7. Corpus-Based Contrast in Audiovisual Customization: A Pilot Study on Can/Could and Subject Pronouns in Spanish Dubbing, Camino Gutierrez-Lanza and Rosa Rabadan (Universidad de Leon, Spain)
Part II. Discourse in Contrast
8. The Social Functions and Linguistic Patterns of Please and its Norwegian Correspondences, Stine Hulleberg Johansen and Kristin Rygg (University of Oslo and Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
9. Discourse Connectives in English and French: A Contrastive Study on Political Discourse, Diana Lewis (Aix Marseille Universite, France)
10. Reporting Verbs in English, Czech and Finnish, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK) and Lenka Farova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
11. From Dashes to Dashes? A Contrastive Corpus Study of Dashes in English, German and Swedish, Jenny Stroem Herold and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Index