| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond,
0922-842X ;
new ser. v. 126
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 126.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 com. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Demonstratives.
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English language -- Demonstratives. |
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Chinese.
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Chinese. |
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Chinese language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English.
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Chinese language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English. |
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Chinese language -- Demonstratives.
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Chinese language. |
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English language -- Article.
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English language -- Article. |
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Chinese language -- Article.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Article. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wu, Yi'an. Spatial demonstratives in English and Chinese. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub., ©2004 9027253692 9789027253699 (DLC) 2004050761 (OCoLC)55220220 |
| ISBN |
9789027295194 (electronic book) |
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9027295190 (electronic book) |
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1282160273 |
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9781282160279 |
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9027253692 (Eur.) |
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1588115453 (U.S.) |
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