Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction xv
5. Part I. Information structure
6. Theme zones in contrast: An analysis of their linguistic realization in the communicative act of a non-acceptance 3
7. Last things first: An FDG approach to clause-final focus constituents in Spanish and English 33
8. Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentences 69
9. The position of adverbials and the pragmatic organization of the sentence: A comparison of French and Dutch 89
10. Part II. Lexis in contrast
11. Swedish verbs of perception from a typological and contrastive perspective 123
12. 'Abroad' and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan (Ghana) 173
13. The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy tales 193
14. The feminine stereotype in gay characterization: A look at English and Spanish 221
15. Part III. Contrastive perspectives on SLA
16. Communicative tasks across languages: Movie narratives in English, in English as a foreign language and in German 247
17. Linguistic theory and bilingual systems: Simultaneous and sequential English/Spanish bilingualism 275
18. Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonemic learning in EFL 299
19. Contrastive intonation and error analysis: Tonality and tonicity in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of English 327
20. Author index 355
21. Index of languages 359
22. Index of terms 361