Animacy and reference [electronic resource] : a cognitive approach to corpus linguistics / Mutsumi Yamamoto.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in language companion series ; v. 46.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c1999.Description: xvi, 278 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 415 21
LOC classification:
  • P240.65 .Y36 1999eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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