Meaning through language contrast. Volume 2 / edited by K.M. Jaszczolt, Ken Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaszczolt, Katarzyna.

Turner, Ken, 1956-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 100.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contrastive linguistics.

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

viii, 491 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2003.

Summary:

These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Márta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.

Contents:

Meaning Through Language Contrast

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Part I:Grammaticalization

Distal aspects in Bantu languages

From temporal to conditional

Then - adverbial pro-form or inference particle?

The polysemy of the Swedish verb komma 'come'

Part II:Metaphor in contrast

Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpus

Cross-language metaphors

A contrastive cognitive perspective on Malay and English figurative language

Metaphorical expressions in English and Spanish stock market journalistic texts

Part III: Cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts

Directions of regulation in speech act theory

On Japanese ne and Chinese ba

'I am asking for a pen'

Cultural scripts for French and Romanian thanking behaviour

Sociocultural variation in native and interlanguage complaints

A cross-cultural study of requests

Questions as indirect requests in Russian and Czech

The language of love in Melanesia

Everyday rituals in Polish and English

A question of time? Question types and speech act shifts from a historical-contrastive perspective

The contrasts between contrasters

Part IV: The semantics/pragmatics boundary: Theory and applications

Cross-linguistic implementations of specificity

The semantics-pragmatics interface

On translating 'what is said'

Translation equivalents as empirical data for semantic/pragmatic theory

Language index

Name index

Subject index

Contents of Volume 1

PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161414

9781282161412

1282161415

9789027296771

9027296774

OCLC:

52966735