GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion: Insights from Corpus-based Studies of Languages, Registers and Modes
Kerstin Kunz, "GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion: Insights from Corpus-based Studies of Languages, Registers and Modes "
English | ISBN: 3110711052 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 3110711052 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
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.
Read more