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Languages and cultures in contrast and comparison
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Languages and cultures in contrast and comparison

Author: María A Gómez-González; J Lachlan Mackenzie; Elsa González Álvarez
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond, new ser., 175.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. This book analyzes the interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. It focuses on  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: María A Gómez-González; J Lachlan Mackenzie; Elsa González Álvarez
ISBN: 9789027254191 9027254192
OCLC Number: 184906195
Description: xxii, 364 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Theme zones in contrast : an analysis of their linguistic realization in the communicative act of a non-acceptance / Anita Fetzer --
Last things first : a FDG approach to clause-final focus constituents in Spanish and English / Mike Hannay and Elena Martínez Caro --
Contrastive perspectives on cleft sentences / Jeanette K. Gundel --
The position of adverbials and the pragmatic organization of the sentence : a comparison of French and Dutch / Ilse Magnus --
Swedish verbs of perception from a typological and contrastive perspective / Åke Viberg --
'Abroad' and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan (Ghana) / Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo --
The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy tales / Gabrina Pounds --
The feminine stereotype in gay characterization : a look at English and Spanish / Félix Rodríguez González --
Communicative tasks across languages : movie narratives in English, in English as a foreign language and in German / Andeas H. Jucker --
Linguistic theory and bilingual systems : simultaneous and sequential English/Spanish bilingualism / Raquel Fernández Fuertes, Juana M. Liceras and Esther Álvarez de la Fuente --
Awareness of orthographic form and morphophonemic learning in EFL / Edward Dalley Benson and María del Pilar García Mayo --
Contrastive intonation and error analysis : tonality and tonicity in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of English / Francisco Gutíerrez Díez.
Series Title: Pragmatics & beyond, new ser., 175.
Responsibility: edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez-González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elsa M. González Álvarez.
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