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Contrastive Discourse Analysis
Maite Taboada (Ed.)
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Description for Contrastive Discourse Analysis
Hardcover. This volume provides examples of cutting-edge research in contrastive analyses of different languages. The papers have been organized around four themes: studies of discourse markers; information structure; registers and genres; and phraseology. Editor(s): Taboada, Maite; Doval-Suarez, Susana M.; Gonzalez-Alvarez, Elsa M. Series: Functional Linguistics. Num Pages: 370 pages, 11 figures. BIC Classification: CFGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 678.
Much of the "new wave" of contrastive linguistics has focused on aspects of the grammatical system, examining phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic similarities and differences across two or more languages. As with many other areas of linguistics, there exists a renewed interest in discourse perspectives in the study of languages in contrast, and much of that work uses corpora and corpus linguistics techniques to study language. This volume provides examples of cutting-edge research in contrastive analyses of different languages. The papers have been organized around four themes: studies of discourse markers; information structure; registers and genres; and phraseology. The languages ... Read more
Much of the "new wave" of contrastive linguistics has focused on aspects of the grammatical system, examining phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic similarities and differences across two or more languages. As with many other areas of linguistics, there exists a renewed interest in discourse perspectives in the study of languages in contrast, and much of that work uses corpora and corpus linguistics techniques to study language. This volume provides examples of cutting-edge research in contrastive analyses of different languages. The papers have been organized around four themes: studies of discourse markers; information structure; registers and genres; and phraseology. The languages ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Series
Functional Linguistics
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908049759
SKU
V9781908049759
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About Maite Taboada (Ed.)
Maite Taboada is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-Oriented Dialogue in English and Spanish (John Benjamins, 2004). Susana Doval Suarez is a tenured Lecturer in the Department of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She is the author (with C.S. Butler) of ... Read more
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