Languages in action : exploring communication strategies and mechanisms / edited by Marinela Burada, Oana Tatu and Raluca Sinu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burada, Marinela, editor.

Tatu, Oana, editor.

Sinu, Raluca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Native language--Congresses.

Native language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 359 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This book includes a selection of papers in linguistics presented at the 14th Conference on British and American Studies. Its tripartite structure reflects the main topics around which the nineteen contributions cluster. The first part, "Native language profiling: explorations and findings", displays a variety of methodological approaches aimed at highlighting syntactic, morphological, and lexico-semantic aspects of, primarily, English and Romanian. The papers in the second section, "Aspects of language change, bilingualism, and cross-linguistic variation", bring to the fore some of the topical issues falling within the ambit of language contact, such as mixed languages, bilingualism, and code-switching, as well as contrastive investigations of language structure. The research strand in the final part, "Meaning and communication within and across cultures", relates to lexico-pragmatic inquiries into the construction of meaning, focusing on the "language beyond language", as well as on the extent to which the lexical and pragmatic repertoires of various languages can be made to overlap.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Chapter I: Native Language Profiling: Explorations and Findings

Introduction

English Aspectual Verbs

The Use and Distribution of the Genitive of Deadjectival Nominals in English

Adverbialized Nominals in Superlative APs

On the Alternation Quantified Nouns / Bare Nouns in Old Romanian

Comprehension of Grammatical Aspect in Child Romanian

Chapter II: Aspects of Language Change, Bilingualism, and Cross-Linguistic Variation

The Influence of Patwa on Grenada English Creole

Mobile Language? Romanian-English Code-Switching in Informal Interactions among a Group of Teenagers

Code-Switching and Bilingual Language Competence

Localization in Technospeak

Clitic Overextensions in a Bilingual Context

On Deriving Idiomatic Readings around the Verbs

The Status of the Category of P(Prepositions)

Chapter III: Meaning and Communication Within and Across Cultures

An English-Romanian Contrastive Analysis of the Human is Animal Metaphor

Denominations for the Concept Pădure/Forest

Collaborative Lexicography in Romania

Translating Breton Lais for an Anglo-Norman Audience

Markers of Speech Producer Authorship in Academic Discourse

Participants, the Spoken Word and Conversational Strategies

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at the 14th Conference on British and American Studies.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-5275-2697-6

OCLC:

1083545368