Contrastive Linguistics

This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and practice. It discusses the prin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ke, Ping (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Peking University Linguistics Research, 1
Subjects:
Applied linguistics.
Translating and interpreting.
Comparative literature.
Applied Linguistics.
Language Translation.
Comparative Literature.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Summary:This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and practice. It discusses the principles and methods, and contrasts English, Chinese, German, and other languages at phonological, lexical, grammatical, textual, and pragmatic levels, focusing more on the useful insights contrastive analysis provides into real-world problems in fields such as applied linguistics, translation and translation studies, English or Chinese as a foreign language, and communication than on the discipline itself.
Physical Description:XIII, 210 p. 19 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9789811313851
ISSN:2662-3137 ;
DOI:10.1007/978-981-13-1385-1

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