Contrastive Functional Analysis

Chesterman, Andrew

ISBN 10: 902725060X / ISBN 13: 9789027250605

Editore: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998

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[Ex-Library] Boards bright, stiff and clean, rubbed a touch from shelving, slight sticker residue at base of spine; Usual library stamps and markings internally, text clean and free from annotation; Binding tight. Overall a nice and sturdy copy with a little shelf-wear and minimal library markings internally. ; Pragmatics & Beyond New Series; Vol. 47; 8.9 X 6.2 X 0.7 inches; 238 pages.

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• Titolo: Contrastive Functional Analysis
• Editore: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 902725060X
• ISBN 13: 9789027250605
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Condizione: Very Good-
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued

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Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity thus has both objective and subjective aspects. The author shows how contrastive analysis and translation theory make use of the concept in different ways, and explains how it relates to the problematic notions of equivalence and tertium comparationis. The book then develops a meaning-based contrastive methodology, and outlines one theory of semantic structure which can be used in this methodology. The approach is illustrated with four sample studies covering different kinds of phenomena in some European languages. The final part of the book proposes an extension of the theoretical framework to cover contrastive rhetoric: the aim is to suggest a unified approach linking aspects of semantics, pragmatics and rhetoric.
Keywords: similarity, contrastive analysis, functional grammar, semantics, rhetoric, translation.