Contrastive Corpus Linguistics

Anna Cermakova is Senior Researcher at the Lancaster University, UK and Charles University, Czech Republic.Hilde Hasselgård is Professor of English Language at the University of Oslo, Norway.Markéta Malá is Associate Professor of English Language at Charles University, Czech Republic.Denisa Šebestová is Lecturer at Charles University, Czech Republic.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK), Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway), Markéta Malá (Charles University, Czech Republic) and Denisa Šebestová (Charles University, Czech Republic)1. The State of the Art and Recent Trends in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics, Karin Aijmer (Gothenburg University, Sweden)Part I. Lexico-Grammar in Contrast2. Seeing through Languages and Registers: A Closer Look at the Cognates See and Se, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway)3. Periphrastic Genitive Constructions in English and Norwegian, Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway)4. Double Object Constructions in English and Norwegian: Verbs of Sending, Bringing, Lending and Selling, Thomas Egan (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)5. Prepositional Patterns in English and Czech Newspaper Discourse, Denisa Šebestová and Markéta Malá (Charles University, Czech Republic)6. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Journalistic Phraseology, Jiajin Xu, Guying Zhou, Xinlu Liu, Yuanyuan Wei, Ruchen Yu and Suhua Zhang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)7. Corpus-Based Contrast in Audiovisual Customization: A Pilot Study on Can/Could and Subject Pronouns in Spanish Dubbing, Camino Gutiérrez-Lanza and Rosa Rabadán (Universidad de León, Spain)Part II. Discourse in Contrast8. The Social Functions and Linguistic Patterns of Please and its Norwegian Correspondences, Stine Hulleberg Johansen and Kristin Rygg (University of Oslo and Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)9. Discourse Connectives in English and French: A Contrastive Study on Political Discourse, Diana Lewis (Aix Marseille Université, France)10. Reporting Verbs in English, Czech and Finnish, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK) and Lenka Fárová (Charles University, Czech Republic)11. From Dashes to Dashes? A Contrastive Corpus Study of Dashes in English, German and Swedish, Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Index

Contrastive Corpus Linguistics stands as a tribute to the power of corpus-based methods in unravelling the complexities of language use. The hybrid nature of scholarly discussions makes the volume an essential resource for would-be scholars interested in the intersection of linguistics, translation studies, and discourse analysis … The volume offers a balanced and multifaceted perspective, both empirically rigorous and theoretically insightful.