GECCo - German-English contrasts in cohesion : insights from corpus-based studies of languages, registers and modes / Kerstin Kunz, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, José Manuel Martínez Martínez, Katrin Menzel, Erich Steiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunz, Kerstin, author.

Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina, author.

Martínez Martínez, José Manuel, author.

Menzel, Katrin, author.

Steiner, Erich, author.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 355.

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs ; volume 355

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contrastive linguistics.

English language--Grammar, Comparative--German.

English language.

German language--Grammar, Comparative--English.

German language.

Contrastive linguistics--Research.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]

Summary:

In contrastive linguistics English-German, there is a tradition of accounting for contrasts with respect to grammar, and to a lesser extent, for lexis and phonetics. Moving on to discourse and text, there is a sizeable body of literature on cohesive patterns in English and German respectively - but very little in terms of a comparison. The latter, though, would be of particular interest for language learners, translators and, of course, linguists. The proposed book attempts to close this gap, based on a number of years of corpus-based study into variation and cohesion in the two languages. While there is an overall focus on the language contrast, we shall for each of the two languages also investigate variation between several different registers language-internally, and between written and spoken mode in particular. For each of the five major types of cohesion (co-reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctive relations and lexical cohesion), overviews will be given of contrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in instantiated text. The book should thus be relevant for language teaching, translation and generally corpus-based work on English and German, in terms of results and methodology.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Figures

Introduction

Conceptual clarification of cohesion

Cohesion and coherence

Cohesion and its relation to the situational context

Cohesion as a linguistic phenomenon and its relation to grammar, lexis and information structure

Classification of cohesive phenomena

Main terminology

Types of cohesion

Relationship to the framework of 'Cohesion in English'

Cohesive properties and effects

Synthesis

Methods for the contrastive investigation of cohesion

Theoretical background

Corpus linguistic methods

Corpus compilation

Corpus annotation

Corpus exploitation

Feature analysis

Systemic comparison

Cohesive coreference

Some clarifications : the concept of coreference

State of the art : comparison of English and German

Systemic contrasts English-German in coreference

Some expected implications for cohesive effectstrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in instantiated text. The book should thus be relevant for language teaching, translation and generally corpus-based work on English and German, in terms of results and methodology. Cohesive conjunction

The concept of cohesive conjunction

State of the art

Systemic contrasts English-German in conjunction

Expected cohesive effects

Ellipsis, substitution and comparative reference

Conceptualization : similarities between ellipsis, substitution and comparative reference

Ellipsis

Substitution

Comparative reference

Lexical cohesion

Lexical cohesion : comparison to other types of cohesion, its realization in text, and its relationship to context

Clarification of some basic concepts

Some questions of an empirical methodology

Systemic contrasts

Possible implications of systemic differences for cohesive effects

Assumptions and hypotheses

Language, mode and register

Language

Mode

Register

Degree of cohesion

Types of meaning relation

Cohesive strength

Cohesive development of discourse topics the system and of contrastive frequencies in instantiated text. The book should thus be relevant for language teaching, translation and generally corpus-based work on English and German, in terms of results and methodology. Breadth of variation

Corpus linguistic comparison

Operationalizations

Analyses

Cohesive development of explicit discourse topics

Breadth of variation

Contrastive summary

Summary cohesive properties and effects

Types of meaning relations

Relationship of findings to contrastive linguistics English-German

Relating our findings "inwards" to findings from typologically-based contrastive grammar

Relating our findings outwards to context : contrastive pragmatics, intercultural stylistics

Implications for teaching

English-German contrasts in cohesion : implications for text production

Applications for teacher and translator training^^^g relation

Cohesive development of discourse topics the system and of contrastive frequencies in instantiated text. The book should thus be relevant for language teaching, translation and generally corpus-based work on English and German, in terms of results and methodology. Corpus based learning : activities and exercises on the basis of the GECCo corpus

Relevance for interpreter training

Foreign language pedagogy in general

Discussion and outlook

Current and future benefits of our resource

Improvements and further research

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.

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ISBN:

9783110711059

3110711052

OCLC:

1280301718

Publisher Number:

9783110711059