04111nam 2200757Ia 450 991096524610332120200520144314.09786612160271978128216027912821602739789027295194902729519010.1075/pbns.126(CKB)1000000000521110(OCoLC)70773162(CaPaEBR)ebrary10066532(SSID)ssj0000249368(PQKBManifestationID)11204599(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249368(PQKBWorkID)10205941(PQKB)10611842(MiAaPQ)EBC623133(DE-B1597)720297(DE-B1597)9789027295194(EXLCZ)99100000000052111020040512d2004 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrSpatial demonstratives in English and Chinese text and cognition /Yian Wu1st ed.Philadelphia, Pa. John Benjamins Pub.c20041 online resource (254 p.) Pragmatics & beyond,0922-842X ;new ser. v. 126Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781588115454 1588115453 9789027253699 9027253692 Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and indexes.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.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.Pragmatics & beyond ;new ser. 126.English languageDemonstrativesEnglish languageGrammar, ComparativeChineseChinese languageGrammar, ComparativeEnglishChinese languageDemonstrativesEnglish languageArticleChinese languageArticleEnglish languageDemonstratives.English languageGrammar, ComparativeChinese.Chinese languageGrammar, ComparativeEnglish.Chinese languageDemonstratives.English languageArticle.Chinese languageArticle.425/.5Wu Yi'an690816MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965246103321Spatial demonstratives in English and Chinese1239937UNINA