Spatial demonstratives in English and Chinese :: text and cognition /

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 corpo...

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1. Verfasser: Wu, Yi'an
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub., ©2004.
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 126.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and indexes.
ISBN:9789027295194
9027295190
1282160273
9781282160279
ISSN:0922-842X ;

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