Lexis in contrast : corpus-based approaches / / edited by Bengt Altenberg, Sylviane Granger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970190603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2002
• ISBN: 9786612161834; 9781282161832; 1282161830; 9789027297341; 9027297347
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 pages)
• Collana: Studies in corpus linguistics Lexis in contrast
• Altri autori (Persone): AltenbergBengt; GrangerSylviane <1951->
• Disciplina: 413/.028
• Soggetti: Lexicology - Data processing; Contrastive linguistics - Data processing; Lexicography - Data processing; Machine translating
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Lexis in Contrast -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Recent trends in cross-linguistic lexical studies -- Part II: Cross-Linguistic Equivalence -- Two types of translation equivalence -- Functionally complete units of meaning across English and Italian -- Causative constructions in English and Swedish -- Part III: Contrastive Lexical Semantics -- Polysemy and disambiguation cues across languages -- A cognitive approach to Up/Down metaphors in English and Shang/Xia metaphors in Chinese -- From figures of speech to lexical units -- Part IV: Corpus-based Bilingual Lexicography -- The role of parallel corpora in translation and multilingual lexicography -- Bilingual lexicography, overlapping polysemy, and corpus use -- Computerised set expression dictionaries -- Making a workable glossary out of a specialised corpus -- Part V: Translation and Parallel Concordancing -- Translation alignment and lexical correspondences ; -- The use of electronic corpora and lexical frequency data in solving translation problems -- Multiconcord -- General index -- Author index -- Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields - contrastive linguistics, lexicology, lexicography, terminology, computational linguistics and machine translation. The articles in the volume, which cover a wide diversity of languages, are divided into four main sections: the exploration of cross-linguistic equivalence, contrastive lexical semantics, corpus-based multilingual lexicography, and translation and parallel concordancing. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to recent trends in contrastive lexical studies written by the editors of the volume, Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger.