GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion
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Kerstin Kunz
About this book
In contrastive linguistics of English and German, there is a tradition of accounting for contrasts with respect to grammar and, to a lesser extent, for lexis and phonetics. Moving on to discourse and text, there is a sizeable body of literature on cohesive patterns in English and German respectively - but very little in terms of a comparison. The latter, though, is of particular interest for language learners, translators and, of course, linguists and researchers in language technology.
This book attempts to close this gap, based on a number of years of corpus-based study into variation and cohesion in the two languages. While there is an overall focus on language contrasts, it also investigates variation between different registers language-internally, and between written and spoken mode in particular. For each of the five major types of cohesion (co-reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctive relations and lexical cohesion), overviews are given of contrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in texts.
Results and methods presented in this book are thus relevant for language teaching, translation, language technology and corpus-based work on English and German generally.
Author / Editor information
Kerstin Kunz, Heidelberg; E. Lapshinova-Koltunski, J.-M. Martínez Martínez, K. Menzel & E. Steiner Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of Tables
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1 Introduction
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2 Conceptual clarification of cohesion
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3 Methods for the contrastive investigation of cohesion
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4 Systemic comparison
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5 Assumptions and hypotheses
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6 Corpus linguistic comparison
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7 Contrastive summary
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8 Implications for teaching
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9 Discussion and outlook
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Bibliography
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Index
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