Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1

by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Nicole B. Dehe

These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588112063
• ISBN13: 9781588112064
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 388 Pages