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Spatial demonstratives in English and Chinese : text and cognition / Yian Wu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Yi'an.
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 126.
- Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. v. 126
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Demonstratives.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar, Comparative--Chinese.
- Chinese language--Grammar, Comparative--English.
- Chinese language.
- Chinese language--Demonstratives.
- English language--Article.
- Chinese language--Article.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub., c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the nature of the demonstratives' basic and extended meaning and use, the connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain their trends of extension. The corpora place the English and Chinese demonstratives in comparable discourse contexts and processes, providing an "ecological" environment for the observation of how their behavior fits into the respective structural and discourse systems of the two languages. The study also illuminates important issues such as the subjectivity of language, language as a representational system and a vehicle of communication, the interface between form and function, and the role of context in discourse comprehension.
- Contents:
- Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables
- Conventions and abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The nature of spatial demonstratives
- 3. Spatial demonstratives in real space
- 4. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Similar trends of extension
- 5. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Structural constraints on the similar trends of extension
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Appendix
- Name index
- Subject index
- The Pragmatics &
- Beyond New Series.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612160271
- 9781282160279
- 1282160273
- 9789027295194
- 9027295190
- OCLC:
- 70773162
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