Format:
Online-Ressource (XIII, 228 S.)
,
Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9789004334250
Series Statement:
Language and computers 39
Content:
Editors’ Introduction /Hilde Hasselgård , Stig Johansson , Bergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen -- Interpreting concessive adverbial markers in English and Norwegian discourse /Thorstein Fretheim -- Concessive connectors in English and Swedish /Bengt Altenberg -- Connectives in contrast: A discourse semantic study of Elaboration based on corpus research /Bergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen -- Perspective and point of view: Accounting for subjectivity /Carlota S. Smith -- Probability and necessity in English and German /Raphael Salkie -- Modal adverbs of certainty and uncertainty in an English-Swedish perspective /Karin Aijmer -- Information structure and the use of cleft sentences in English and Norwegian /Jeanette K. Gundel -- Formulating a category of informativity /Geert-Jan M. Kruijff -- Contrast – from a contrastive perspective /Valéria Molnár -- Accent and the notion of contrast: A cross-linguistic approach /Jorunn Hetland -- Cross-linguistic differences in the conceptualisation of events /Christiane von Stutterheim , Ralf Nüse and Jorge Murcia-Serra -- Maintenance and convergence in covert translation English – German /Juliane House -- Grammatical metaphor in translation – some methods for corpus-based investigations /Erich Steiner.
Content:
The present volume draws together contributions from a number of scholars with an interest in empirical, cross-linguistic description. Most of the papers were first presented at the symposium Information Structure in a Cross-linguistic Perspective held in Oslo in November/December 2000. The descriptions are functionally oriented, and their common focus is how information structure – in a broad sense – can be compared across languages. 'Information structure' has been approached in a variety of ways by the authors, so as to give a broad picture of this fundamental principle of text production, involving the way in which a speaker/writer chooses to present a message in terms of given/new information, focus, cohesion, and point of view. Central to much of the research is the problem of establishing criteria for isolating linguistic constraints on language use from cultural-linguistic conventions in text production. The linguistic comparison includes English, German and/or one of the Scandinavian languages, with sidelights to other languages. Most of the papers are text- or corpus-based, and the ongoing work on parallel corpora in Scandinavia is reflected in several contributions
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042014695
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9042014695
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Information structure in a cross-linguistic perspective Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi, 2002 ISBN 9042014695
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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English Studies
Keywords:
Linguistik
;
Informationsstruktur
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004334250
