Contrastive Functional Analysis
Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity thus has both objective and subjective aspects. The author shows how contrastive analysis and translation theory make use of the concept in different ways, and explains how it relates to the problematic …
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- Full title :Contrastive Functional Analysis.
Summary
Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity thus has both objective and subjective aspects. The author shows how contrastive analysis and translation theory make use of the concept in different ways, and explains how it relates to the problematic notions of equivalence and tertium comparationis. The book then develops a meaning-based contrastive.
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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam/Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (238 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027282613, 9027282617, 9789027250605, 902725060X
- oclc:ocn743694158
- LC Classification:P147 .C48 1998
- Dewey Decimal:410
Table of Contents
CONTRASTIVE FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Contrastive; Chapter 2. Functional; Chapter 3. Analysis; Chapter 4. Rhetoric; Chapter 5. Closing Comments; References; Author index; Subject index.
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