Spatial demonstratives in English and Chinese text and cognition - Wu, Yi'an (John Benjamins Pub., 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and indexes
Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgements; List of tables; Conventions and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The nature of spatial demonstratives; 3. Spatial demonstratives in real space; 4. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Similar trends of extension; 5. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Structural constraints on the similar trends of extension; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Appendix; Name index; Subject index
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 com