03584nam 2200673 a 450 991080851340332120200520144314.01-282-16299-3978661216299290-272-9876-9(CKB)1000000000579102(EBL)622229(OCoLC)665835070(SSID)ssj0000276899(PQKBManifestationID)11237842(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276899(PQKBWorkID)10226508(PQKB)11585315(MiAaPQ)EBC622229(EXLCZ)99100000000057910219990113d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnimacy and reference a cognitive approach to corpus linguistics /Mutsumi Yamamoto1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub.c19991 online resource (299 p.)Studies in language companion series,0165-7763 ;v. 46Description based upon print version of record.1-55619-932-5 90-272-3049-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Ch. 1. What is 'Animacy'? --Ch. 2. What Does Animacy Do to Human Language? --Ch. 3. Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese --Ch. 4. Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy --Ch. 5. Agency and Animacy --Ch. 6. A Neverending Story of Animacy --Appendix. Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in Corpus. Case Study 1. Yukio Mishima, Hyaku-man Yen Senbei ('One Million Yen Rice Cracker' or 'Three Million Yen'). Case Study 2. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express. Case Study 3. Asahi Shinbun and Asahi Evening News. Case Study 4. Newsweek. Case Study 5. The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and Systems and Computers in Japan. Case Study 6. Scientific American. Case Study 7. 'Tetsuko no Heya'. Case Study 8. Viewpoints.The concept of 'animacy' concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like.In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy, and secondly, to explain how the concept of animacy can be reflected in the use of referential expressions. Unlike previous studies on the subject focussing on grammatical manifestations, Animacy and Reference sheds light upon the conceptual properties of animacy itself and its rStudies in language companion series ;v. 46.Grammar, Comparative and generalAnimacyReference (Linguistics)English languageAnimacyJapanese languageAnimacyEnglish languageGrammar, ComparativeJapaneseJapanese languageGrammar, ComparativeEnglishGrammar, Comparative and generalAnimacy.Reference (Linguistics)English languageAnimacy.Japanese languageAnimacy.English languageGrammar, ComparativeJapanese.Japanese languageGrammar, ComparativeEnglish.415Yamamoto Mutsumi1942-673584MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808513403321Animacy and reference1273663UNINA