Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison: 175 (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027254192 ISBN 13: 9789027254191

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2008

Synopsis

This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of ‘home’ and ‘abroad’, the development of children’s emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027254192
• ISBN 13: 9789027254191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Gómez González María De Los Ángeles, Mackenzie J. Lachlan, González Álvarez Elsa M.