Elsa Ann Gonzalez

Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)

This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepe...

Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics)

This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the f...

Contrastive Discourse Analysis: Functional and Corpus Perspectives (FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS)

Much of the new wave of contrastive linguistics has focused on aspects of the grammatical system, examining phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic similarities and differences across two or more languages. As with many other areas of linguistics, there exists a renewed interest in discou...

Historia de Mexico/ History of Mexico (Spanish Edition)

Interlanguage Lexical Innovation

Lexical innovation has been dealt with both in studies of second language lexical acquisition and communication, the former often trying to determine the principles that govern the acquisition of the word formation system of a language, the latter studying the application of these processes to compe...

etica y ecologia/ Ethics and ecology