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Sat Oct 13 2012

Books: Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics: De Sutter, Marzo, Heylen (Eds)

Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org>

Date: 04-Oct-2012
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics: De Sutter, Marzo, Heylen (Eds)
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Title: Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 43
Published: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.43

Editor: Stefania Marzo
Editor: Kris Heylen
Editor: Gert De Sutter
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273772 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273772 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 80.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273772 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 67.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202628 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 84.80
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202628 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202628 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Abstract:

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. The volume Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics illustrates this current trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies. These cover a range of linguistic phenomena (syntax, modality and discourse) and pursue different types of research questions (grammaticalization, pragmatic function, stylistic function, typological profile). Accordingly, they use different types of corpora: contemporary and historical texts, written and spoken discourse, and various text types, such as academic discourse and political discourse. Five different languages are represented (English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Lithuanian) with English as a language of comparison in each contribution. The studies all show that quantitative analyses are not at odds with insightful qualitative interpretations or functional approaches to language, but rather complement each other.

This volume was orginally published as a special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:2 (2010).

Linguistic Field(s): Contrastive Ling
                            Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                            English (eng)
                            French (fra)
                            Lithuanian (lit)
                            Spanish (spa)

Written In: English (eng)

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