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Advances in corpus-based contrastive linguistics : studies in honour of Stig Johansson / edited by Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg ; Bengt Altenberg, University of Lund

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Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
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1 online resource (x, 295 pages).
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Aijmer, Karin and Altenberg, Bengt
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction / Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg -- Tertia comparationis in multilingual corpora / Thomas Egan -- Seeing the lexical profile of Swedish through multilingual corpora: the case of Swedish åka and other vehicle verbs / Åke Viberg -- A corpus-based analysis of English affixal negation translated into Spanish / Rosa Rabadán and Marlén Izquierdo -- English adverbs of essence and their equivalents in Dutch and French / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change / Kate Beeching -- Youngspeak: Spanish vale and English okay / Anna-Brita Stenström -- Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: more or less the same? / Sylvie De Cock and Diane Goossens -- Enriching the phraseological coverage of high-frequency adverbs in English-French bilingual dictionaries / Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer -- Using recurrent word-combinations to explore cross-linguistic differences / Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and hilde Hasselgård -- Cohesive substitution in English and German: a contrastive and corpus-based perspective / Kerstin Kunz and Erich Steiner -- The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and Swedish / Jennifer Herriman -- Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres: a contrastive corpus-based study / Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón.
Summary
This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres - news reports and commentaries - in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain clausal and discourse-thematic features in a bilingual comparable corpus consisting of a total of thirty-two texts (sixteen news reports and sixteen commentaries), evenly divided into English and Spanish texts. The analysis shows that despite the language-specific features which can be observed in certain thematic selections at clause level, most of the clausal and discourse thematic differences in the material can be related to the different communicative purposes which characterize these two genres. In view of the similarities and statistically significant differences between the two genres in both languages, it is suggested that genre is the major factor affecting the thematic variation in the bilingual sample, while language-specific differences play a secondary role
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9789027272324 (electronic bk.)
9027272328 (electronic bk.)
9781299241039 (electronic bk.)
1299241034 (electronic bk.)
9789027203595 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9027203598 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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