Meaning through language contrast. Volume 2 /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 491 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 100 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 100.
Subject:	Contrastive linguistics. Semantics. Pragmatics. Grammar, Comparative and general. Contrastive linguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general. Pragmatics. Semantics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126758

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Other authors / contributors:	Jaszczolt, Katarzyna. Turner, Ken, 1956-
ISBN:	9789027296771 9027296774 1588112071 9027253498 9789027253491 9027251193 9789027251190 9027251207 9789027251206 1588113329 9781588113320 1588112063 9781588112064 9781588112071
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusi.
Other form:	Print version: Meaning through language contrast. Volume 2. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, ©2003 9027251207 9789027251206

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Grammaticalization
2. Distal aspects in Bantu languages
3. From temporal to conditional
4. Then -- adverbial pro-form or inference particle?
5. The\polysemy of the Swedish verb komma `come'
6. Metaphor in contrast
7. Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpus
8. Cross-language metaphors
9. A\contrastive cognitive perspective on Malay and English figurative language
10. Metaphorical expressions in English and Spanish stock market journalistic texts
11. Cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts
12. Directions of regulation in speech act theory
13. On Japanese ne and Chinese ba
14. `I am asking for a pen'
15. Cultural scripts for French and Romanian thanking behaviour
16. Sociocultural variation in native and interlanguage complaints
17. A\cross-cultural study of requests
18. Questions as indirect requests in Russian and Czech
19. The\language of love in Melanesia
20. Everyday rituals in Polish and English
21. A\question of time? Question types and speech act shifts from a historical-contrastive perspective
22. The\contrasts between contrasters
23. The\semantics/pragmatics boundary: Theory and applications
24. Cross-linguistic implementations of specificity
25. The\semantics-pragmatics interface
26. On translating `What is said'
27. Translation equivalents as empirical data for semantic/pragmatic theory
28. Language index
29. Name index
30. Subject index
31. Contents of Volume 1

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