Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Elsa M. González Álvarez, eds., Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison, John Benjamins, 2008
Hardbound: ISBN: 978 90 272 5419 1 Pages: xxii, 364 pp. Price: / EUR
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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.