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Spatial demonstratives in English and Chinese : text and cognition /

As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wu, Yi'an
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub., ©2004.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 126.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgements; List of tables; Conventions and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The nature of spatial demonstratives; 3. Spatial demonstratives in real space; 4. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Similar trends of extension; 5. Spatial demonstratives in displaced contexts: Structural constraints on the similar trends of extension; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Appendix; Name index; Subject index.