GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion: Insights from Corpus-based Studies of Languages, Registers and Modes

Kerstin Kunz; Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski; José Manuel Martínez Martínez; Katrin Menzel; Erich Steiner

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2021

GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion

Insights from Corpus-based Studies of Languages, Registers and Modes

Kerstin Kunz , Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski , José Manuel Martínez Martínez , Katrin Menzel and Erich Steiner

Volume 355 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711073

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About this book

In contrastive linguistics of English and German, there is a tradition of accounting for contrasts with respect to grammar and, to a lesser extent, for lexis and phonetics. Moving on to discourse and text, there is a sizeable body of literature on cohesive patterns in English and German respectively - but very little in terms of a comparison. The latter, though, is of particular interest for language learners, translators and, of course, linguists and researchers in language technology.

This book attempts to close this gap, based on a number of years of corpus-based study into variation and cohesion in the two languages. While there is an overall focus on language contrasts, it also investigates variation between different registers language-internally, and between written and spoken mode in particular. For each of the five major types of cohesion (co-reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctive relations and lexical cohesion), overviews are given of contrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in texts.

Results and methods presented in this book are thus relevant for language teaching, translation, language technology and corpus-based work on English and German generally.

Author / Editor information

Kerstin Kunz, Heidelberg; E. Lapshinova-Koltunski, J.-M. Martínez Martínez, K. Menzel & E. Steiner Saarbrücken, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Conceptual clarification of cohesion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3 Methods for the contrastive investigation of cohesion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4 Systemic comparison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
5 Assumptions and hypotheses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
6 Corpus linguistic comparison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
7 Contrastive summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
8 Implications for teaching Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists, Contrastive Linguists, Translation Scholars/Trainers/Trainees, Translators, Language Learners/Teachers
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 274
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 28
- Coloured Illustrations: 15
- Tables: 16
Keywords: Contrastive Linguistics English-German; Corpus-Based Methodologies; Contrastive Cohesion; Register Variation

eBook

Published: October 25, 2021
ISBN: 9783110711073

Hardcover

Published: October 25, 2021
ISBN: 9783110711059