Contrasting meanings in languages of the East and West
By: [edited by] Dingfang Shu and Ken Turner.
Contributors: Shu, Dingfang.; Turner, Ken, 1956-; International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics (3rd : 2005 : Shanghai, China)
Series: Contemporary studies in descriptive linguistics -- 14
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9783039118861
Subjects: Semantics, Comparative; Contrastive linguistics; Semantics (Philosophy); Meaning (Psychology)
Notes: "This collection of papers on contrastive semantics and pragmatics has developed out of talks given at the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at the ... Hongkou Campus of Shanghai International Studies University ... in 2005."--<Introduction>

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dingfang Shu and Ken Turner; title: Part I. Gricean Themes: Gricean and Confucian Pragmatics: A Contrastive Analysis / Michiel Leezenberg; title: Information Structure in PA/SN or Descriptive/Metalinguistic Negation: With Reference to Scalar Implicatures / Chungmin Lee; title: Switch-reference in Amele and Logophoric Verbal Suffix in Gokana: A Generalized Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Analysis / Yan Huang; title: Hearer's Aspect in Politeness: The Case of Requests / Saeko Fukushima; title: Part II. Contrast and Cognition: Valency and Cognitive Frames for Three Constructions in Mandarin / Jiaxuan Shen; title: Specialized Grounding in English and Chinese Existentials / Ren Zhang; title: Existentials, Possessives and their Grammaticalization into Perfectives: With Special Reference to Chinese you and English be and have / Lei Zhu; title: A contrastive approach to discourse particles: a case study of the Mandarin UFP ne ? / Chauncey C. Chu; title: Part III. Aspects of Logical Structure: Part IIIa. Aspects of Quantification: Quantified Eventualities in Russian, Czech and Polish: An OT Analysis / Dorota Klimek-Janowska; title: On the Cross-linguistic Correlation Between the Usages of YES/NO Particles and the Presence/Absence of Negative Quantifiers / Katsuhiko Yabushita; title: Part IIIb. Aspects of Modality: A Contrastive Study of the Semantic Functions and Pragmatic Uses of Modal Verbs in English and Chinese / Renzhi Li; title: Modality and Polysemy: Toward an Implicational Map / Marc Duval; title: Part IIIc. Aspects of Demonstratives: On Chinese Numeral Yi and Demonstrative Determiner Na versus English a and the: A Contrastive Analysis in a Discourse-Pragmatics Perspective / Yili Shi; title: Reference and Complex Demonstratives in English and in Finnish / Erkki Ahlström; title: Part IV. Lexical, Constructional and Discourse Semantics: Prohibition: Constructions and Markers / Johan van der Auwera; title: The Pragmatics of Destiny in Russian and English (Towards a Description of Fundamental Cultural Concepts) / Valentina Apresjan; title: Countability in English and Mandarin / Jenny Yichun Kuo and Hunter Jiun-Shiung Wu / Mandarin Gen and French et/avec: Another Look at Distributivity and Collectivity / Marie-Claude Paris; title: The Relation Accompanying Circumstance Across Languages: Conflict between Linguistic Expression and Discourse Subordination? / Bergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen; title: Topic Introduction and Referent Accessibility in Chinese and English Narrative Discourse / Yulong Xu; title: Part V. Back to Grice: Conditionals in English and FOPL / Barbara Abbott; title: Notes on contributors.