15.3031, Books: Cog Sci/Pragmatics, English/Chinese: Wu

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Date: 25-Oct-2004
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese:  Wu


	
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:34:27
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese:  Wu

Title: Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese
Subtitle: Text and Cognition
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 126

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20126


Author: Yi'an Wu, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Hardback: ISBN: 1588115453 Pages: xviii, 236 pp. Price: U.S. $ 119.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253692 Pages: xviii, 236 pp. Price: Europe EURO 99.00


Abstract:

As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied
extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as
distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a
cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel
corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the
nature of the demonstratives' basic and extended meaning and use, the
connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain
their trends of extension. The corpora place the English and Chinese
demonstratives in comparable discourse contexts and processes, providing an
"ecological" environment for the observation of how their behavior fits
into the respective structural and discourse systems of the two languages.
The study also illuminates important issues such as the subjectivity of
language, language as a representational system and a vehicle of
communication, the interface between form and function, and the role of
context in discourse comprehension.


Table of contents

Preface  ix

Introduction  xi

Acknowledgements  xiii

List of tables  xv

The figure  xvi

Conventions and abbreviations  xvii

1. Introduction  1

2. The nature of the spatial demonstratives  27

3. Spatial demonstratives in real space  59

4. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Similar trends of
extension  77

5. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Strutural constraints on
the similar trends of extension  141

Concluding remarks  201

Notes  205

References  211

Appendix  225

Index  229



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (Language Code: CHN)
                     English (Language Code: ENG)


Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)
	
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