Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

1. Introduction
Karin Aijmer, Diana Lewis

Part I. Contrastive Analysis with Parallel Corpora

2. The Semantic Field of Obligation in an English-Swedish Contrastive Perspective
Karin Aijmer

3. English so and Dutch dus in a Parallel Corpus: An Investigation into Their Mutual Translatability
Lieven Buysse

4. What English Translation Equivalents Can Reveal about the Czech “Modal” Particle prý: A Cross-Register Study
Michaela Martinková, Markéta Janebová

5. Modal Adverbs of Certainty in EU Legal Discourse: A Parallel Corpus Approach
Magdalena Szczyrbak

Part II. Contrastive Analysis with Comparable Corpora

6. Adverbial Clauses in English and Norwegian Fiction and News
Hilde Hasselgård

7. Coherence Relations and Information Structure in English and French Political Speeches
Diana Lewis

Part III. Contrastive Analysis Across Genres of English

8. Callbacks in Stand-Up Comedy: Constructing Cohesion at the Macro Level Within a Specific Genre
Catherine Chauvin

9. Bush and Obama’s Addresses to the Arab World: Recontextualizing Stance in Political Discourse
Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Yasra Hanawi

10. The Role of Metadiscourse in Genre Analysis: Engagement Markers in Undergraduate Textbooks and Research Articles
Tereza Guziurová

Nyckelord: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities, Comparative Literature