NEW BOOK: LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTRAST AND COMPARISON, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 175

Tue Jul 1 20:09:22 UTC 2008

New book:

Title: Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison 
Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: John Benjamins, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 175
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20175
Editor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Elsa M. González Álvarez

Hardbound: ISBN:  978 90 272 5419 1 Pages: xxii, 364 pp. Price: / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00

Abstract:
This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of 'home' and 'abroad', the development of children's emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

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María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Academic Secretary of Department
English Department
University of Santiago de Compostela
Avda. Castelao s/n
E-15704 Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Tel:  +34 981 563100 Ext. 11856
Fax: +34 981 574646
research team website: http://www.usc.es/scimitar/inicio.html. At present we are working on the update of this web page.