Sadness expressions in English and Chinese : corpus linguistic contrastive semantic analysis

Sadness expressions in English and Chinese : corpus linguistic contrastive semantic analysis / Ruihua Zhang.

"This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora and a parallel corpus. The exploration adopts a unique theoretical approach which integrates corpus-linguistic theories on meaning (as a soci...

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Main Author: Zhang, Ruihua (Linguist) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Series:Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
Subjects:
Emotive (Linguistics)
Language and emotions.
English language > Grammar, Comparative > Chinese.
Chinese language > Grammar, Comparative > English.
Emotions > Cross-cultural studies.
Comparative linguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
psycholinguistics.
Computational linguistics.
Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Chinese language > Grammar, Comparative > English
Comparative linguistics
Emotions
English language > Grammar, Comparative > Chinese
Language and emotions
Psycholinguistics
Cross-cultural studies
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Emotions
  • 3. Contrastive lexical semantics
  • 4. Corpus linguistics, parallel corpora and cross-linguistics research
  • 5. The corpus-linguistic framework
  • 6. Methodology
  • 7. Contrastive analysis of sadness expressions in English and Chinese
  • 8. Implications
  • 9. Conclusion.

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