GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion

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<p>In contrastive linguistics of English and German, there is a tradition of accounting for contrasts with respect to grammar and, to a lesser extent, for lexis and phonetics. Moving on to discourse and text, there is a sizeable body of literature on cohesive patterns in English and German respectively - but very little in terms of a comparison. The latter, though, is of particular interest for language learners, translators and, of course, linguists and researchers in language technology.</p><p></p><p>This book attempts to close this gap, based on a number of years of corpus-based study into variation and cohesion in the two languages. While there is an overall focus on language contrasts, it also investigates variation between different registers language-internally, and between written and spoken mode in particular. For each of the five major types of cohesion (co-reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctive relations and lexical cohesion), overviews are given of contrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in texts.</p><p></p><p>Results and methods presented in this book are thus relevant for language teaching, translation, language technology and corpus-based work on English and German generally.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Kerstin Kunz</strong>, Heidelberg;<strong>E. Lapshinova-Koltunski</strong>,<strong>J.-M. Martínez Martínez, K. Menzel</strong>&amp;<strong>E. Steiner</strong> Saarbrücken, Germany.</p>

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