31.2516, Books: New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Enghels, Defrancq, Jansegers (eds.)

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Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 20:12:13
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Enghels, Defrancq, Jansegers (eds.)

 


Title: New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics 
Subtitle: Empirical and Methodological Challenges 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2CiqU3x 


Editor: Renata Enghels
Editor: Bart Defrancq
Editor: Marlies Jansegers

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110682397 Pages: 312 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a
cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s
has led to a new sub-discipline of corpus-based contrastive studies. The
present volume tackles two main challenges that had not yet been fully
addressed in the literature, namely an empirical assessment of the nature of
the data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (e.g. translation data
versus comparable data), and the development of advanced methods and
statistical techniques suitably adapted to contrastive research settings. The
papers collected in this volume endeavour to find out what (new) types of data
are most useful for what kind of contrastive questions, and which advanced
statistical techniques are most suited to deal with the multidimensionality of
contrastive research questions. Answers to these questions are provided
through the contrastive analysis of various language pairs or groups, and a
wide variety of phenomena situated at almost all linguistic levels. In sum,
this book provides an update on new methodological and theoretical insights in
empirical contrastive linguistics and will stimulate further research within
this field.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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