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Sadness expressions in English and Chinese : corpus linguistic contrastive semantic analysis

Title: Sadness expressions in English and Chinese : corpus linguistic contrastive semantic analysis / Ruihua Zhang.
Author: Zhang, Ruihua (Linguist)
Publication: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

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Description

ix, 241 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora and a parallel corpus. The exploration adopts a unique theoretical approach which integrates corpus-linguistic theories on meaning (as a social construct, usage and paraphrase) with a corpus-linguistic lexical model. It employs a new complex but workable methodology which combines computational tools with manual examination to tease meaning out of corpus evidence, to compare and contrast lexical items that do not match up neatly between languages. It looks at sadness expressions both within and across languages in terms of three corpus-linguistic structural categories, i.e. colligation, collocation and semantic association/preference, and paraphrase (both explicit and implicit) to capture their subtle nuances of meaning, disclose the culture-specific conceptualisations encoded in them, and highlight their respective cultural distinctiveness of emotion. By presenting multidisciplinary original work, Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive lexical semantics, psychology, bilingual lexicography and language pedagogy"--

Series Statement

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse

Uniform Title

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Field as It Stands -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 4 Methodology -- Chapter 5 Analysis -- Chapter 6 Implications -- Chapter 7 Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 14-6588

ISBN

9781472510662 (hardback)
1472510666 (hardback)
9781472506610 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
9781472507679 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014006174

OCLC

857981523

Author

Zhang, Ruihua (Linguist), author.

Title

Sadness expressions in English and Chinese : corpus linguistic contrastive semantic analysis / Ruihua Zhang.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-6588

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