Ebook: GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion: Insights from Corpus-based Studies of Languages, Registers and Modes
- Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 355
- Year: 2021
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Language: English
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<p>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. </p> <p></p> <p>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. </p> <p></p> <p>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. </p>
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