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Meaning Through Language Contrast
Volume 2
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.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 100] 2003. viii, 496 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Grammaticalization
- Distal aspects in Bantu languagesSteve Nicolle | pp. 3–22
- From temporal to conditional: Italian qualora vs English wheneverJacqueline Visconti | pp. 23–50
- Then — adverbial pro-form or inference particle? A comparative study of English, Ewe, Hungarian, and NorwegianThorstein Fretheim, Stella Boateng and Ildikó Vaskó | pp. 51–74
- The polysemy of the Swedish verb komma ‘come’: A view from translation corporaÅke Viberg | pp. 75–105
- Metaphor in contrast
- Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpusKay Wikberg | pp. 109–123
- Cross-language metaphors: Conceptual or pragmatic variation?Andreas Musolff | pp. 125–139
- A contrastive cognitive perspective on Malay and English figurative languageJonathan Charteris-Black | pp. 141–157
- Metaphorical expressions in English and Spanish stock market journalistic textsAnna Espunya and Patrick Zabalbeascoa | pp. 159–180
- Cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts
- Directions of regulation in speech act theorySusumu Kubo | pp. 183–195
- On Japanese ne and Chinese baMutsuko Endo Hudson and Ronald Geluykens | pp. 197–212
- ‘I am asking for a pen’: Framing of requests in black South African EnglishLuanga A. Kasanga | pp. 213–235
- Cultural scripts for French and Romanian thanking behaviourTine Van Hecke | pp. 237–250
- Sociocultural variation in native and interlanguage complaintsRonald Geluykens and Bettina Kraft | pp. 251–261
- A cross-cultural study of requests: The case of British and Japanese undergraduatesSaeko Fukushima | pp. 263–275
- Questions as indirect requests in Russian and CzechMichael Betsch | pp. 277–290
- The language of love in Melanesia: A study of positive emotionsLes Bruce | pp. 291–329
- Everyday rituals in Polish and EnglishEwa Jakubowska | pp. 331–343
- A question of time? Question types and speech act shifts from a historical-contrastive perspective: Some examples from Old Spanish and Middle EnglishVerena Jung and Angela Schrott | pp. 345–371
- The contrasts between contrasters: What discussion groups can tell us about discourse pragmaticsPiibi-Kai Kivik and Krista Vogelberg | pp. 373–401
- The semantics/pragmatics boundary: Theory and applications
- Cross-linguistic implementations of specificityKlaus von Heusinger | pp. 405–421
- The semantics–pragmatics interface: The case of groundingEsam N. Khalil | pp. 423–440
- On translating ‘What is said’: Tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmaticsKatarzyna M. Jaszczolt | pp. 441–462
- Translation equivalents as empirical data for semantic/pragmatic theoryBergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen | pp. 463–476
- Language index | pp. 477–479
- Name index | pp. 481–482
- Subject index | pp. 483–487
- Contents of Volume 1 | pp. 489–491
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