An edition of Contrasting meaning in languages of the East and West
(2010)
Contrasting meaning in languages of the East and West
by Dingfang Shu
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Contrasting meaning in languages of the East and West
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Dingfang Shu and Ken Turner
Part 1. Gricean Themes: Gricean and Confucian Pragmatics: A Contrastive Analysis / Michiel Leezenberg
Information Structure in PA/SN or Descriptive/Metalinguistic Negation: With Reference to Scalar Implicatures / Chungmin Lee
Switch-reference in Amele and Logophoric Verbal Suffix in Gokana: A Generalized Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Analysis / Yan Huang
Hearer's Aspect in Politeness: The Case of Requests / Saeko Fukushima
Part 2. Contrast and Cognition: Valency and Cognitive Frames for Three Constructions in Mandarin / Jiaxuan Shen
Specialized Grounding in English and Chinese Existentials / Ren Zhang
Existentials, Possessives and their Grammaticalization into Perfectives: With Special Reference to Chinese you and English be and have / Lei Zhu
A contrastive approach to discourse particles: a case study of the Mandarin UFP ne ? / Chauncey C. Chu
Part 3A. Aspects of Logical Structure: Aspects of Quantification: Quantified Eventualities in Russian, Czech and Polish: An OT Analysis / Dorota Klimek-Janowska
On the Cross-linguistic Correlation Between the Usages of YES/NO Particles and the Presence/Absence of Negative Quantifiers / Katsuhiko Yabushita
Part 3B. Aspects of Logical Structure: Aspects of Modality: A Contrastive Study of the Semantic Functions and Pragmatic Uses of Modal Verbs in English and Chinese / Renzhi Li
Modality and Polysemy: Toward an Implicational Map / Marc Duval
Part 3C. Aspects of Logical Structure: Aspects of Demonstratives: On Chinese Numeral Yi and Demonstrative Determiner Na versus English a and the: A Contrastive Analysis in a Discourse-Pragmatics Perspective / Yili Shi
Reference and Complex Demonstratives in English and in Finnish / Erkki Ahlström
Part 4. Lexical, Constructional and Discourse Semantics: Prohibition: Constructions and Markers / Johan van der Auwera
The Pragmatics of Destiny in Russian and English (Towards a Description of Fundamental Cultural Concepts) / Valentina Apresjan
Countability in English and Mandarin / Jenny Y-Cchun Kuo and Hunter Jiun-Shiung Wu
Mandarin gen and French et/avec: Another Look at Distributivity and Collectivity / Marie-Claude Paris
The Relation Accompanying Circumstance Across Languages: Conflict between Linguistic Expression and Discourse Subordination? / Bergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Topic Introduction and Referent Accessibility in Chinese and English Narrative Discourse / Yulong Xu
Part 5. Back to Grice: Conditionals in English and FOPL / Barbara Abbott
Notes on contributors.
Edition Notes
"This collection of papers on contrastive semantics and pragmatics has developed out of talks given at the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at the ... Hongkou Campus of Shanghai International Studies University ... in 2005."--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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