Search results for "contrastive linguistics"
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The interaction of language and thought in children's language acquisition: a crosslinguistic study
1997
The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential interaction of conceptual representations and linguistic systems in the process of language acquisition. Language–thought interactions were studied in 80 American, 48 Finnish and 48 Polish preschool children. The research focused on the conceptual and linguistic development of space and time. The spatial and temporal conceptual tasks were designed to measure the transition from experiential to inferential knowledge of space/time representations. In the linguistic domain, comprehension and production tests were used to evaluate the children's capacity to understand mono- and bi-referential location in space and time, where mono-re…
The International Comparable Corpus: Challenges in building multilingual spoken and written comparable corpora
2021
This paper reports on the efforts of twelve national teams in building the International Comparable Corpus (ICC; https://korpus.cz/icc) that will contain highly comparable datasets of spoken, written and electronic registers. The languages currently covered are Czech, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Swedish and, more recently, Chinese, as well as English, which is considered to be the pivot language. The goal of the project is to provide much-needed data for contrastive corpus-based linguistics. The ICC corpus is committed to the idea of re-using existing multilingual resources as much as possible and the design is modelled, with various adjustments, on t…
Corpus linguistics and its aplications in higher education
2010
The aim of this paper is to review and analyse relevant factors related to the implementation of corpus linguistics (CL) in higher education. First we set out to describe underlying principles of CL and its developments in relation to theoretical linguistics and its applications in modern teaching practices. Then we attempt to establish how different types of corpora have contributed to the development of direct and indirect approaches in language teaching. We single out Data Driven Learning (DDL) due to its relevance in applied linguistics literature, and examine in detail advantages and drawbacks. Finally, we outline problems concerning the implementation of CL in the classroom since awar…
¿Cómo se replica afirmativamente en español e italiano?
2017
This article is part of a broader project aiming to describe the pragmatic strategies in Spanish and Italian task-oriented dialogues. Specifically it intends to highlight the different communicative dynamics depending on the use of affirmative responses carried out with the Spanish particles hum, sí, vale, ya, bien, exacto, etc. and Italian markers uhm, sì, okay, perfetto, etc. The method of analysis used has allowed to delineate two ‘stylistic’ tendencies that differ on the characterisation of the speaker’s stance about the interaction: Italian speakers present themselves as guides leading the achievement of the task, Spanish speakers moreover present themselves like autonomous individuals…
Exploiting the Incomparability of Comparable Corpora for Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies
2013
For empirical research in translation studies and contrastive linguistics comparability across languages is an important and non-trivial issue, particularly, if we aim at quantifying differences and commonalities. We approach this problem by investigating the CroCo Corpus of English and German originals and translations in eight different registers concentrating on the (in)comparability of the different subcorpora. They are comparable across languages but incomparable in terms of functional, i.e. register, variation. A feature matrix is analysed to reveal differences and commonalities between the bilingually comparable texts (i.e. English and German originals) and the monolingually comparab…
Contrasting the form and use of reformulation markers
2007
This article deals with the form and use of reformulation markers in research papers written in English, Spanish and Catalan. Considering the form and frequency of the markers, English papers tend to prefer simple fixed markers and include fewer reformulators than Spanish and Catalan. On the contrary, formal Catalan and Spanish papers include more markers, some of which are complex and allow for some structural variability. As for use, reformulation markers establish dynamic relationships between portions of discourse which can be identified in our corpus with expansion, reduction and permutation. The analysis of the corpus shows that English authors usually reformulate to add more informa…
Interjections and Pragmatic Errors in Dubbing
2006
This paper consists of an analysis of the expressive secondary interjections found in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and their equivalents in the Spanish and Catalan dubbed versions. The contrastive analysis of the interjections in the original English version compared with the Spanish and the Catalan dubbed versions shows that the strategies followed by the translators are different: literal translation is far more frequent in Spanish than in Catalan. Literal translation often implies an error that is pragmatic in nature since it derives from the misunderstanding of the pragmatic meaning that the interjection conveys.
Sastatāmā un lietišķā valodniecība: Kontrastīvie pētījumi.10
2001
Krājuma rakstu autori analizē dažādu valodas līmeņu parādības angļu, latviešu, lietuviešu, krievu, norvēģu valodā un tulkojumos.Valodu sastatījums veikts kā strukturālā, tā arī funkcionālā un kultūrvēsturiskā aspektā. Atklātas šo valodu īpatnības, arī to kopīgās īpašības. Vairāki raksti veltīti pedagoģijas problēmām. Aplūkota arī valodu vienību mijiedarbība gan valodu kontaktu, gan tulkošanas procesā.
Sastatāmā un lietišķā valodniecība: Kontrastīvie pētījumi.5
1996
Krājuma rakstu autori analizē dažādu valodas līmeņu parādības angļu, vācu, norvēģu, latviešu valodā, tulkojumos. Valodu sastatījums veikts kā strukturālā, tā arī funkcionālā un kultūrvēsturiskā aspektā. Atklātas šo valodu īpatnības, arī to kopīgās īpašības. Aplūkota arī valodu vienību mijiedarbība gan valodu kontaktu, gan tulkošanas procesā.
Sastatāmā un lietišķā valodniecība: Kontrastīvie pētījumi.3
1994
Krājuma rakstu autori analizē dažādu valodas līmeņu parādības angļu, senangļu, latviešu valodā, aizguvumos no dažādām kontaktvalodām, tulkojumos. Valodu sastatījums veikts kā strukturālā, tā arī funkcionālā un kultūrvēsturiskā aspektā. Atklātas šo valodu īpatnības, arī to kopīgās īpašības. Aplūkota arī valodu vienību mijiedarbība gan valodu kontaktu, gan tulkošanas procesā.