Author: Ping Ke Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811313857 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 219
Book Description
This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and practice. It discusses the principles and methods, and contrasts English, Chinese, German, and other languages at phonological, lexical, grammatical, textual, and pragmatic levels, focusing more on the useful insights contrastive analysis provides into real-world problems in fields such as applied linguistics, translation and translation studies, English or Chinese as a foreign language, and communication than on the discipline itself.
Author: Jacek Fisiak Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027286507 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong theoretical purpose, contributing to our understanding of language typology and language universals. Issues in theoretical CL, which also feature in this volume, are the choice of model, the notions of equivalence and contrast, and directionality of descriptions. Languages used for illustration in this volume include English, German, Danish, and Polish.
Author: María de los Ángeles Gómez González Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027290520 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 394
Book Description
This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of ‘home’ and ‘abroad’, the development of children’s emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.
Author: Kari Sajavaara Publisher: ISBN: Category : Applied linguistics Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
A collection of 17 papers, most presented at the Fifth International Conference on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Present Trends in Contrastive Linguistics,""Contrastive Linguistics in Bulgaria,""Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Teaching: A Project Report,""From Traditional Contrastive Linguistics Towards a Communicative Approach: Theory and Applications within the Finnish-English Cross-Language Project,""Estonian-English Contrastive Studies,""Report on the English-Hungarian Contrastive Linguistics Project,""A Plea for Contrastive Psycholinguistics", "Language Variation and the Death of Language Teaching,""Grammatical Models and Contrastive Analysis,""Applied Contrastive Linguistics: In Search of a Framework", "Some Psychological Aspects of Contrastive Pragmatics or, In Search of a Cognitive Contrastive Analysis of Social Interaction (CCASI),""A Translation-Based Model of Contrastive Analysis,""Contrastive Pragmatics and the Foreign Language Learner's Personality,""Immigrant Children in Germany: Their Grammatical Ablities in English as a Foreign Language,""Understanding Idioms in First and Second Language Acquisition: A Preliminary Analysis,""The Learning of Coventional Syntagms by Finnish Comprehensive School Pupils," and "On Simplification: Simple and Simplified Language in Examination Papers." (MSE)
Author: Ping Ke
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