Languages and Cultures in Contrast and ComparisonMaría de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elsa M. González Álvarez 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. |
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Last things first | 33 |
Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentences | 69 |
The position of adverbials and the pragmatic organization of the sentence | 89 |
part ii | 121 |
Swedish verbs of perception from a typological and contrastive perspective | 123 |
Abroad and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan Ghana | 173 |
The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy tales | 193 |
Communicative tasks across languages | 247 |
Linguistic theory and bilingual systems | 275 |
Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonimic learning in EFL | 299 |
Contrastive intonation and error analysis | 327 |
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