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The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across
registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the
innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is
an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive
linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus
linguists.
The book specifies a corpus architecture, including annotation and
querying techniques, and its implementation. The corpus
architecture is developed for empirical studies of translations,
and beyond those for the study of texts which are inter-lingually
comparable, particularly texts of similar registers. The compiled
corpus, CroCo, is a resource for research and is, with some
copyright restrictions, accessible to other research projects. Most
of the research was undertaken as part of a DFG-Project into
linguistic properties of translations. Fundamentally, this research
project was a corpus-based investigation into the language pair
English-German. The long-term goal is a contribution to the study
of translation as a contact variety, and beyond this to language
comparison and language contact more generally with the language
pair English - German as our object languages. This goal implies a
thorough interest in possible specific properties of translations,
and beyond this in an empirical translation theory. The methodology
developed is not restricted to the traditional exclusively
system-based comparison of earlier days, where real-text excerpts
or constructed examples are used as mere illustrations of
assumptions and claims, but instead implements an empirical
research strategy involving structured data (the sub-corpora and
their relationships to each other, annotated and aligned on various
theoretically motivated levels of representation), the formation of
hypotheses and their operationalizations, statistics on the data,
critical examinations of their significance, and interpretation
against the background of system-based comparisons and other
independent sources of explanation for the phenomena observed.
Further applications of the resource developed in computational
linguistics are outlined and evaluated.
Sometimes people motivate you, sometimes they challenge you,
sometimes they inspire you, and sometimes they do all three at
once. Ruqaiya Hasan falls into the last category. It is impossible
to capture the huge impact that her work has had and will continue
to have on a wide range of people and areas of research. In this
volume, we attempt to show just a small snapshot of her impact on
the study of verbal art. On Verbal Art reflects on and celebrates
the contribution that Professor Ruqaiya Hasan made to research on
linguistic approaches to verbal art and includes contributions by
scholars from around the world. The volume gathers together
researchers with different perspectives, different views and
different approaches to verbal art and aims to provide an
inspiration to others to continue the work that Hasan began. One of
the lasting insights emerging from Hasan's work on verbal art is
the extent to which it informs analysis and theory. This volume
brings together chapters that offer a detailed account of Hasan's
contribution to the study of verbal art, chapters that pay tribute
to Hasan by adopting some of her central notions such as
foregrounding, symbolic articulation, theme and secondary semiosis
to inform their analyses, chapters that take Hasan's thinking as a
starting point to explore new methodological approaches for the
investigation of verbal art, and finally chapters by scholars who
are new to Hasanian thinking and afford fresh perspectives that
build bridges to related approaches. It is also hoped that this
volume will encourage new research and promote the reading or
re-reading of Hasan's tremendous work in this area. We look forward
to new challenges, arguments, extensions and applications.
Linguistics, like any discipline, is full of boundaries. However,
in nature, as Ruqaiya Hasan points out, there are no clear cut
boundaries. The participants of the 42nd International Systemic
Functional Congress held at RWTH Aachen University addressed and
challenged the notion of boundaries in linguistics in many creative
ways. Twenty-one of the papers presented at the congress are
collated in this volume. The six sections cover topics that
challenge theoretical notions and stances, and explore historical,
interpersonal and lexicogrammatical boundaries as well as those
between languages and in language development. The volume presents
a state of the art overview of systemic functional linguistic
theorising with extensions into other theoretical frameworks.
Sometimes people motivate you, sometimes they challenge you,
sometimes they inspire you, and sometimes they do all three at
once. Ruqaiya Hasan falls into the last category. It is impossible
to capture the huge impact that her work has had and will continue
to have on a wide range of people and areas of research. In this
volume, we attempt to show just a small snapshot of her impact on
the study of verbal art. On Verbal Art reflects on and celebrates
the contribution that Professor Ruqaiya Hasan made to research on
linguistic approaches to verbal art and includes contributions by
scholars from around the world. The volume gathers together
researchers with different perspectives, different views and
different approaches to verbal art and aims to provide an
inspiration to others to continue the work that Hasan began. One of
the lasting insights emerging from Hasan's work on verbal art is
the extent to which it informs analysis and theory. This volume
brings together chapters that offer a detailed account of Hasan's
contribution to the study of verbal art, chapters that pay tribute
to Hasan by adopting some of her central notions such as
foregrounding, symbolic articulation, theme and secondary semiosis
to inform their analyses, chapters that take Hasan's thinking as a
starting point to explore new methodological approaches for the
investigation of verbal art, and finally chapters by scholars who
are new to Hasanian thinking and afford fresh perspectives that
build bridges to related approaches. It is also hoped that this
volume will encourage new research and promote the reading or
re-reading of Hasan's tremendous work in this area. We look forward
to new challenges, arguments, extensions and applications.
This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the
fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and
extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on
the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and
sets these alongside parallel studies in journalism and film.
However, it is also concerned with larger philosophical and
historical notions of closure, impermanence, rupture and apocalypse
as well as the possibilities of "posthumous" being. It gives
examples from fairytales, Byron, Longfellow, Dillard, Barnes and
South African writers.
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