A contrastive analysis must proceed through four steps. Moreover, contrastive analysis theory remains an influential construct in the field of second language acquisition. From words to discourse university of murcia, 2007, step by step. Most analyses are weakened by insufficient care at one or more of these steps, each of which is beset with problems. A course in contrastive linguistics and translation contemporary studies in descriptive linguistics. Pdf a course in linguistics download full pdf book. View contrastive linguistics research papers on academia. Following such a theory may contribute to a better understanding of the acquisition process of second language structures. A course in contrastive linguistics and translation. A contrastive methodology for esp learning and translation abstract over the last few years applied linguists have explored the possibility of integrating the insi ght s of secon d langua ge acqui sition t heo ries, cont rast ive anal ysis, foreign langua ge. Contrastive cognitive linguistics university of murcia, 2003, cognitive linguistics. Her main areas of research are the fields of translation and cognitive linguistics. She has authored and coedited the following books and monograph issues.
Most contrastive linguists have either explicitly or implicitly made use of translation as a means of establishing crosslinguistic relationships, and in his book on contrastive analysis carl james reaches the conclusion that translation is the best basis of comparison. This book is a course in contrastive linguistics and. Pub date sep 73 note 43p paper presented at the annual meeting of bail. This book is a course in contrastive linguistics and translation which introduces the basics of linguistic analysis as applied to translation. We conclude that translation equivalence, of this rather rigorously defined sort.
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