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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457043003321

Autore

Chesterman Andrew

Titolo

Contrastive functional analysis [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Chesterman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamin, c1998

ISBN

90-272-8261-7

1-283-22198-5

9786613221988

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 47

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Contrastive linguistics

Discourse analysis

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTRASTIVE FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Contrastive; Chapter 2. Functional; Chapter 3. Analysis; Chapter 4. Rhetoric; Chapter 5. Closing Comments; References; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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