Animacy and Reference: A Cognitive Approach to Corpus LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing, 1 jan 1999 - 278 pagina's The concept of 'animacy' concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like. In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy, and secondly, to explain how the concept of animacy can be reflected in the use of referential expressions. Unlike previous studies on the subject focussing on grammatical manifestations, Animacy and Reference sheds light upon the conceptual properties of animacy itself and its reflection in referential processes. For the research of this study the author focussed on languages that show completely different tendencies. As a result, English and Japanese 'parallel corpora' are analysed yielding salient observations and opening intriguing discussions. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER 1 What is Animacy? | 9 |
CHAPTER 2 What Does Animacy Do to Human Language? | 41 |
With Reference to the Distinction between Singularity an | 73 |
CHAPTER 4 Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy | 131 |
Their Expression and Suppression | 147 |
Some Achievements Further Prospects and Implications | 177 |
References | 183 |
Lists of HumanAnimate Noun Phrases in Corpus | 197 |
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Animacy and Reference: A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics Mutsumi Yamamoto Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1999 |
Animacy and Reference: A Cognitive Approach to Corpus Linguistics Mutsumi Yamamoto Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1999 |
Animacy and Reference: A Cognitive Approach to Corpus Linguistics Mutsumi Yamamoto Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1999 |
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Agatha Christie Agent animacy concept Animacy Scale argued Asahi Shinbun boku Calvin Klein Carlos central pronouns Chapter characteristics clause cognitive common noun phrases Common NPs concept of animacy deictic deixis discussed distinction ellipsis elliptical empathy encoding English and Japanese English original English texts English translation example futari gradience Grammar Hercule Poirot Hierarchy of Persons inanimate entities Individuation Scale inferred animacy instances Japanese and English Japanese original Japanese person Japanese texts Japanese translation kanojo kare Kenzo Kiyoko linguistic manifestations means minister Murayama Murayama Tomiichi Newsweek Non-central pronouns Orient Express parallel corpus passive person plural reference person referential expressions person singular reference personal pronouns Poirot Powaro reference in English reference in Japanese second person pronouns second person reference sensei sentence sentiency shushoo Siewierska singularity and plurality speaker syntactic texts Number third person pronouns third person reference topic uriko watashi watashi-tachi written texts Yukio Mishima