1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202946103316

Titolo

Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, Inc

ISSN

1523-1739

Disciplina

639

Soggetti

Conservation biology

Biologie de la conservation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965246103321

Autore

Wu Yi'an

Titolo

Spatial demonstratives in English and Chinese : text and cognition / / Yian Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pa., : John Benjamins Pub., c2004

ISBN

9786612160271

9781282160279

1282160273

9789027295194

9027295190

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. v. 126

Disciplina

425/.5

Soggetti

English language - Demonstratives

English language - Grammar, Comparative - Chinese

Chinese language - Grammar, Comparative - English

Chinese language - Demonstratives

English language - Article

Chinese language - Article

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- Conventions and abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of spatial demonstratives -- 3. Spatial demonstratives in real space -- 4. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Similar trends of extension -- 5. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Structural constraints on the similar trends of extension -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Name index -- Subject index -- The Pragmatics &amp -- Beyond New Series.

Sommario/riassunto

As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the nature of the demonstratives' basic and extended meaning and use, the connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain their trends of extension. The corpora place the English and Chinese demonstratives in comparable discourse contexts and processes, providing an "ecological" environment for the observation of how their behavior fits into the respective structural and discourse systems of the two languages. The study also illuminates important issues such as the subjectivity of language, language as a representational system and a vehicle of communication, the interface between form and function, and the role of context in discourse comprehension.