Animacy and reference : a cognitive approach to corpus linguistics /
The concept of 'animacy' concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like. In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework o...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
1999
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 46. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. What is 'Animacy'?
- Ch. 2. What Does Animacy Do to Human Language?
- Ch. 3. Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese
- Ch. 4. Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy
- Ch. 5. Agency and Animacy
- Ch. 6. A Neverending Story of Animacy
- Appendix. Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in Corpus. Case Study 1. Yukio Mishima, Hyaku-man Yen Senbei ('One Million Yen Rice Cracker' or 'Three Million Yen'). Case Study 2. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express. Case Study 3. Asahi Shinbun and Asahi Evening News. Case Study 4. Newsweek. Case Study 5. The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and Systems and Computers in Japan. Case Study 6. Scientific American. Case Study 7. 'Tetsuko no Heya'. Case Study 8. Viewpoints.
