Author : Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Release : 2003-03-20
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 774/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Meaning Through Language Contrast by : Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Download or read book Meaning Through Language Contrast written by Kasia M. Jaszczolt. This book was released on 2003-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Márta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.
