Several important trends and developments in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The focus may be on general or on language specific features. It is useful ta distinguish two periods in the development of contrastive studies, the first this is an expanded version of a. In the study of foreign language learning, the identification of points of structural similarity and difference between two languages crystal, 1992, p. Contrastive linguistics is the first book written by a linguist from mainland china on the histories and principles of comparing and contrasting chinese and western languages, specifically english. Historically it has been used to establish language genealogies. The first page of the pdf of this article appears above. It is argued that contrastive analysis, far from being irrelevant or obsolete as some critics have claimed, remains, both theoretically and methodologically, the most principled component of a theory of errors.
Meaning relations contrastive textology and corpus linguistics 949 the first distinction we can make is that between meaning in words, meaning in sentences, and meaning in texts, which gives us three columns. Contrastive lexical semantics, current issues in linguistic. Any aspect of language may be covered, including vocabulary, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, text and discourse, stylistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. It is assumed that syllables are applicable to asl because the phonological representation can be seen in each individual hand movement. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of europe.
Contrastive studies in the practice and science contrary to what is often believed, most of the worlds population is multilingual multicultural, though multilingualism is not always recognised by public institutions. Pdf on apr 17, 2018, christian mair and others published recent advances in contrastive linguistics and language typology. Functional and cognitive perspectives this book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive. Describes the activities of the center for applied linguistics in the field of contrastive linguistics since its founding in 1959. Linguistics o contrastive analysis pays attention to different languages at lexical, phonological, syntactical and semantic levels o contrastive studies find similarities and differences between languages in. Angeles gomezcastejon catholic university of leuven received. Contrastive analysis ca or contrastive linguistics. Contrastive linguistics in a new key 9 within the next few years we will have more information about this problem. The term contrastive linguistics is also sometimes used for comparative studies of small groups rather than just pairs of languages, and does not require a sociocultural link between the languages investigated. Studies in contrastive semantics, pragmatics, and morphology. What are the new or current trends in linguistics research. Methods, trends, peer practice, new devices, ict, pedagogy, learning process, call, clic, cooperative learning, neurolinguistics 1. Contrastive linguistics and the linguistic field theory.
The study may be theoretical, without any immediate application, or it may be applied, i. From correspondence relation to communicative strategy r. Hannes kniffka, studied at bonn, cologne and stanford university, ca. University of duisburg and essen winter term 2014 table of contents contrastive linguistics types of interference contrastive phonology contrastive morphology language type and morphology differences in the nominal area contrastive lexicology and wordformation lexical gaps and compounding productive processes contrastive syntax. What is contrastive analysis in applied linguistics. Contrastive linguistics free download as powerpoint presentation.
Elemente einer kulturkontrastive linguistik hannes kniffka. Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. What do you know about contrastive analysis in linguistics. Current studies in linguistics monographs and edited collections on linguistics under the umbrella of linguistic inquiry, and exceeding the format of the linguistic inquiry monograph series. It is a form of comparative linguistics, related forms being comparative diachronic linguistics and synchronic linguistic typology. The authors should be congratulated on a truly remarkable achievement. On this view, contrastive linguistics is a special case of linguistic typology and is distinguished from other. Studies in functional and structural linguistics, no.
In other words, it is the systematic study of a pair of languages with a view to identifying their structural differences and similarities. Most downloaded linguistics and education articles elsevier. While traditional linguistic studies had developed comparative methods comparative linguistics, chiefly to demonstrate family relations between cognate languages, or to illustrate the historical developments of one or more languages, modern contrastive linguistics intends to show in what ways the two respective languages differ, in order to help in the solution of practical problems. Some terminological issues the label contrastive has been used in linguistic inquiry mainly to refer to inter. Raymond hickey institute for anglophone studies university of duisburg and essen summer term 2017 table of contents contrastive linguistics types of interference contrastive phonology contrastive morphology language type and morphology differences in the nominal area contrastive lexicology and wordformation lexical gaps and compounding.
Contrastive linguistics in a new key nordic journal of english studies. The series publishes stateoftheart work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages. What is contrastive analysis linguistics philology. Contrastive linguistics and translation studies interconnected. Current studies in linguistics current studies in linguistics monographs and edited collections on linguistics under the umbrella of linguistic inquiry, and exceeding the format of the linguistic inquiry monograph series. An essay or paper on contrastive linguistics definition. Pdf recent advances in contrastive linguistics and language. Habilitation 1980 in general linguistics at cologne university. On syntactic levelsone tertium comparison is in contrastive linguistics l. Trends in linguistics is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. In the field of linguistics there are several elements that are studied in order to understand the semantics, syntax, and morphology of a language.
Gilreath this paper will focus on the meaning of signedlanguage syllables, or the signedsyllable, in american sign language asl. Languages in contrast publishes contrastive studies of two or more languages. Phonology phonology is largely concerned with the contrastive sounds of a language. Comparative linguistics, or comparativehistorical linguistics formerly comparative philology is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness genetic relatedness implies a common origin or protolanguage and comparative linguistics aims to construct language families, to reconstruct protolanguages. Contrastive linguistics definition is a branch of linguistics concerned with showing the differences and similarities in the structure of at least two languages or dialects. Current trends in contrastive linguistics john benjamins.
Firstsecond language, learner, corpora, contrastive linguistics, error. View contrastive linguistics research papers on academia. Ca is the study and comparison of two languages, learners target language tl and learners native language nl. Trends in linguistics studies and monographs 29 editor werner winter mouton publishers berlin new york amsterdam. While traditional linguistic studies had developed comparative methods comparative linguistics, chiefly to demonstrate family relations between cognate languages, or to illustrate the historical developments of one or more languages, modern contrastive linguistics intends to show in what ways the two respective languages differ, in order to help in the solution of practical. An overview of current trends in contrastive semantics, pragmatics. Functional and cognitive perspectives this book examines the contribution of various recent. This is a book about linguistics, not about any of its subdisciplines in particular. Contrastive analysis and translation study from a corpus. To summarize the evolution of cl, one can notice that from the original ca. Functional and cognitive perspectives this book examines the contribution of various recent developments in.
Part i focuses, from a broadly functionalcognitive viewpoint. Contrastive linguistics stress linguistics indonesian. Guys there is the power point presentation of contrastive analysis, set 2. The psychology of language and contrastive linguistics. Languages in contrast welcomes interdisciplinary studies, such as those that make links between. Introduction in the present times, so many books have been published in english about english language in general and english language teaching in particular. Historical linguistics addresses, essays, lectures. May 05, 2017 there are good books on language acquisition. This book focuses on contrastive linguistics from semantic, pragmatic. This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. Unless you find a new topic or a new point of view, it is crowded. Contrastive definition of contrastive by the free dictionary. Contrastive linguistics is thus not a unified field of study. Contrastive linguistics or cl is synonymous with contrastive analysis ca but only the latter is a countable noun.
What is contrastive analysis free download as powerpoint presentation. Raymond hickey university of duisburg and essen winter. Request pdf current trends in contrastive linguistics. Contrastive analysis, error analysis and interlanguage. Full text of contrastive analysis and error analysis a. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics. Unique to cl is that its purview is limited to a pair of languages. Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. Languages in contrast welcomes interdisciplinary studies, such as those that make links between contrastive linguistics and.
Four gradients of the contrastive linguistics hypothesis are considered. Studies in functional and structural linguistics, issn 01657712. An example of contrastive analysis of cultural patterns embedded in language structures. The corpusbased approach the relationship between contrastive linguistics cl and translation studies ts as two disciplines within the field of applied linguistics has been explored in depth by several authors, especially in the 1970s and early 1980s. Contrastive analysis is the systematic study of a pair of languages with a view to identifying their structural differences and similarities. The current trend of placing greater emphasis on the relationship of utterance to. Studies and monographs tilsm has 204 entries in the series.
Functional and cognitive perspectives studies in functional and structural. I would say the most interesting work that i know of i have to say that i dont know much are in connexion with neurology and data m. Papers and studies in contrastive linguistics, volume. Meaning in words is the aim of the conventional definition, and the job of traditional lexicology, semantics and lexicography. This study attempts to examine and compare current trends in applied linguistics al research methods in china and the west. Often used to reconstruct historic language trees, showing how whole language families devel.
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