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Title: Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West

Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West

by Dingfang Shu (Volume editor) Ken Turner (Volume editor)
©2010 Conference proceedings XVI, 622 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Volume 14

Summary

This is a collection of papers that resulted from the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Shanghai International Studies University in September 2005. Their common focus lies in aspects of the contrastive semantics and pragmatics in a wide variety of languages. These aspects include several themes that arise from Gricean and neo-Gricean considerations of contrastive pragmatics; from cognitive semantics and pragmatics, including metaphor and issues that relate to the logical structure of quantification, modality and demonstration; and from contrastive lexical, constructional and discourse semantics. The languages discussed include Afrikaans, Amele, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Gokana, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Yakut and Zulu.

Details

Pages
XVI, 622
Year
2010
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039118861
Language
English
Keywords
Scalar Implications Logoriphic Verbal Suffix Contract and Cognition Russian and Mandarin
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010. XVI, 622 pp., num. tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Dingfang Shu (Volume editor) Ken Turner (Volume editor)

The Editors: Dingfang Shu is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Research at Shanghai International Studies University. He is President of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Foreign Languages. Ken Turner teaches linguistics and the philosophy of language at the University of Brighton. He is series co-editor of Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface and serves on the editorial boards of the Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique, Łódź Papers in Pragmatics, the International Review of Pragmatics and the Journal of Foreign Languages.

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