Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction Functional and corpus perspectives in contrastive discourse analysis 1
5. 1 Discourse markers and coherence relations: Comparison across markers, languages and modalities 17
6. 2 Pragmatic triangulation and misunderstanding: A prosodic perspective 41
7. 3 Spanish Venga and its English equivalents: A contrastive study of teenage talk 53
8. 4 Discourse markers in French and German: Reasons for an asymmetry 72
9. 5 Thematic Parentheticals in Dutch and English 94
10. 6 Word order and information structure in English and Swedish 123
11. 7 The use of it-clefts in the written production of Spanish advanced learners of English 143
12. 8 Annotating thematic features in English and Spanish: A contrastive corpus-based study 164
13. 9 Topic and topicality in text: A contrastive study of English and Spanish narrative texts 183
14. 10 Towards a comparison of cohesive reference in English and German: System and text 208
15. 11 Genre- and culture-specific aspects of evaluation: Insights from the contrastive analysis of English and Italian online property advertising 240
16. 12 Contrastive analyses of evaluation in text: Key issues in the design of an annotation system for attitude applicable to consumer reviews in English and Spanish 262
17. 13 An annotation scheme for dynamic modality in English and Spanish 282
18. 14 Corpus analysis and phraseology: Transfer of multi-word units 305
19. 15 Lying as metaphor in a bilingual phraseological corpus (German-Spanish) 327
20. Index 345