Research Catalog

Title

Proceedings, 6th International Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek, April 15-17, 1992.

Author

International Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek (6th : 1992 : Thessalonikē, Greece)

Publication

Thessaloniki : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1992.

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Additional Authors

Aristoteleio Panepistēmio Thessalonikēs

Description

416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Proceedings, Sixth International Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek, April 15-17, 1992
• Description and/or comparison of English and Greek
• Description/comparison of English and Greek
• Proceedings, Sixth International Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek.
• Description/comparison of English and Greek.
• Description and/or comparison of English and Greek.

Subject

• English language > Greek
• Greek language > English
• Analogy (Linguistics)

Note

• At head of title: School of English, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.
• On spine: Description/comparison of English and Greek.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

English papers. Why synonymy is rare: an evolutionary explanation / James R. Hurford -- Conflation / Athanasios Kakouriotis -- Classics in a cold climate: tradition, changes, continuity / John Ellis Jones -- Discourse motivations for the use of the perfect in modern Greek / Angeliki Psaltou-Joycey -- Greek and English readers' accuracy and confidence when inferencing meanings of unknown words / Penelope Kambakis-Vougiouklis -- Periphrastic verbs in modern Greek as a means of functional sentence perspective / Theodoros Skenderis -- Texture in translation: cohesive and thematic aspects of English and Greek texts / Dionysis Goutsos -- Advertising and nature conservation through grammar, genre and social context / Jenny Stefanou -- Pragmalinguistic failure in letters of application / Carl James, Phil Scholfield and George Ypsiladis -- The historical present in Greek personal experience narratives: a discourse-pragmatic approach / Alexandra Georgakopoulou -- The ausbau sociolinguistics of Greek as a minority and majority language / Peter Trudgill -- Discursive practices of consumerism / Norman Fairclough -- Laughter as an official conversational activity / Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou, Polyxeni Malli and Sofia Agoritsa -- The phonetics and phonology of stress clashes in Greek / Amalia Arvaniti -- Anomalous left capture of English / John C. Wells

OCLC

• 42435835
• SCSB-12323772

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