Contrastive Linguistics

• Main Author: Ke, Ping (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Peking University Linguistics Research, 1
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Translation and interpretation.; Literature-Translations.; Applied Linguistics.; Translation.; Translation Studies.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Principles and Methods of Comparing and Contrasting Languages
• Phonetic and Phonological Contrastive Analyses
• Lexical Contrastive Analysis
• Grammatical Contrastive Analysis
• Textual Contrastive Analysis
• Pragmatic Contrastive Analysis
• References
• Index.