Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition - Couverture rigide

Wu, Yi’an

 
9789027253699: Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027253692 ISBN 13 : 9789027253699
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027253692
ISBN 13 
9789027253699
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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