Contrastive analysis of discourse-pragmatic aspects of linguistic genres
Aijmer, KarinUnknown
Springer (Gewerbestrasse, Switzerland, 2017) (eng) English9783319545547UnknownUnknownDISCOURSE ANALYSIS; UnknownThis 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.
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vii, 233p.24 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Introduction / Karin Aijmer and Diana Lewis --
The semantic field of obligation in an English-Swedish contrastive perspective / Karin Aijmer --
English so and Dutch dus in a parallel corpus: an investigation into their mutual translatability / Lieven Buysse --
What English translation equivalents can reveal about the Czech "modal" particle prý: a cross-register study / Michaela Martinková and Markéta Janebová --
Modal adverbs of certainty in EU legal discourse: a parallel corpus approach / Magdalena Szczyrbak --
Adverbial clauses in English and Norwegian fiction and news / Hilde Hasselgård --
Coherence relations and information structure in English and French political speeches / Diana Lewis --
Callbacks in stand-up comedy: constructing cohesion at the macro level within a specific genre / Catherine Chauvin --
Bush and Obama's addresses to the Arab world: recontextualizing stance in political discourse / Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Yasra Hanawi --
The role of metadiscourse in genre analysis: engagement markers in undergraduate textbooks and research articles / Tereza Guziurová.