Contrastive Functional Analysis
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 1998
VIII, 230 pages
978-90-272-8261-3 (ISBN)
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Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity thus has both objective and subjective aspects. The author shows how contrastive analysis and translation theory make use of the concept in different ways, and explains how it relates to the problematic notions of equivalence and tertium comparationis. The book then develops a meaning-based contrastive methodology, and outlines one theory of semantic structure which can be used in this methodology. The approach is illustrated with four sample studies covering different kinds of phenomena in some European languages. The final part of the book proposes an extension of the theoretical framework to cover contrastive rhetoric: the aim is to suggest a unified approach linking aspects of semantics, pragmatics and rhetoric.
Keywords: similarity, contrastive analysis, functional grammar, semantics, rhetoric, translation.
Keywords: similarity, contrastive analysis, functional grammar, semantics, rhetoric, translation.
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Content
- CONTRASTIVE FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Contrastive
- 1.1. Similarities
- 1.1.1. Similarity Assessment
- 1.1.2. Divergent and Convergent Similarity
- 1.2. Equivalence in Translation Theory
- 1.2.1. The Equative View
- 1.2.2. The Taxonomic View
- 1.2.3. The Relativist View
- 1.3. Equivalence in Contrastive Analysis
- 1.3.1. Tertia Comparationis
- 1.3.2. Bilingual Competence and Translation Competence
- 1.4. On Psychological Realism
- 1.4.1. The Problem of the Psycholinguistic Fallacy
- 1.4.2. Interference and Re-entry
- 1.4.3. Universalist vs. Relativist
- 1.5. CFA Methodology
- 1.5.1. Primary Data
- 1.5.2. Comparability Criterion and Similarity Constraint
- 1.5.3. Problem and Initial Identity Hypothesis
- 1.5.4. Hypothesis Testing
- 1.5.5. Revised Hypotheses
- Chapter 2. Functional
- 2.1. Grammar as a Tool Factory
- 2.2. Interpreting the Constraint of Relevant Similarity
- 2.3. An Outline Model of Semantic Structure
- 2.3.1. Overview
- 2.3.2. Predicates
- 2.3.3. Actants
- 2.3.4. Specifiers
- 2.3.5. Compilicato
- 2.3.6. Commentators
- 2.3.7. Conjunctors
- 2.3.8. Concluding Remarks
- 2.4. Other Functionalist Models
- 2.5. Other Contrastive Models
- Chapter 3. Analysis
- 3.1. States of Disease (English)
- 3.2. Inclusion (English and Finnish)
- 3.2.1. Similarity Constraint and Initial Data
- 3.2.2. Testing the Identity Hypothesis
- 3.2.3. Revised Hypotheses
- 3.3. Invitation to Eat (English, German, French, Swedish, Finnish)
- 3.3.1. Similarity Constraint and Initial Data
- 3.3.2. Testing the Identity Hypothesis
- 3.3.3. Revised Hypotheses
- 3.4. Genericity (English and French)
- 3.4.1. Similarity Constraint and Initial Data
- 3.4.2. Testing the Identity Hypothesis
- 3.4.3. Revised Hypotheses
- 3.5. Speaker Perspective (English, German, Finnish)
- 3.5.1. Similarity Constraint and Initial Data
- 3.5.2. Testing the Identity Hypothesis
- 3.5.3. Revised Hypotheses
- Chapter 4. Rhetoric
- 4.1. Background
- 4.1.1. Contrastive Text Linguistics
- 4.1.2. Contrastive Discourse Analysis
- 4.1.3. Contrastive Rhetoric
- 4.1 4. Methodological
- 4.2. Text Types
- 4.3. Text Actants: Episodes
- 4.4. Text Specifiers
- 4.4.1. Point
- 4.4.2. Profile
- 4.4.3. Angle
- 4.4.4. Chronology
- 4.5. Appeals
- 4.5.1. Pathos
- 4.5.2. Ethos
- 4.6. Coherence
- 4.7. Interaction
- 4.7.1. Exchange
- 4.7.2. Exchange Types
- 4.7.3. Moves
- 4.7.4. Exchange Specifiers
- 4.7.5. Status Relations
- 4.7.6. Controls
- Chapter 5. Closing Comments
- 5.1. Applications
- 5.2. Conclusions
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
