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From: Christian Bieri [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Variety and Variability: Ho-Abdullah
 

	
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Title: Variety and Variability 
Subtitle: A Corpus-based Cognitive Lexical-semantics Analysis of Prepositional Usage
in British, New Zealand and Malaysian English
 
Series Title: Europäische Hochschulschriften - Volume 370  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com
	
Author: Imran Ho-Abdullah

Paperback: ISBN:  9783034305822 Pages: 291 Price: U.S. $ 56.59
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034305822 Pages: 291 Price: U.K. £ 33.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034305822 Pages: 291 Price: Europe EURO 36.70 Comment: for Germany EURO 39.30, for Austria EURO 40.40


Abstract:

Research into varieties of Englishes around the world has received 
much attention from scholars. This book offers a new perspective 
from a cognitive inter and intra lexemic analysis of prepositional 
variations in Malaysian English and contrasts them with similar 
prepositions in New Zealand and British English. Based on corpora 
data from the three varieties, the author provides usage types analysis 
of the prepositions at, in and on. The analysis exploits cognitive 
approaches to prepositional polysemy and gives a motivated account 
of prepositional variations across varieties. The book offers a wealth 
of corpus based linguistic data and explanation to our understanding 
of variations in prepositional usage in different varieties of English. 
The distributional frequencies of various usage types are provided to 
illustrate the variation. 

Contents: Variety and Variability - Descriptions of Prepositional 
Meaning - A Cognitive Linguistic Framework for Prepositional Usage - 
The Data Source & Methodology of Usage-type Resolution - Looking 
at 'at' - Indulging in 'in' - Reflecting on 'on'. 

Imran Ho-Abdullah, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at 
the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social 
Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He has 
conducted extensive research in various aspects of English and Malay 
linguistics using corpus methodology and cognitive linguistics 
framework. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Lexicography
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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