| English Contrastive Studies: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century Contributor(s): Fisiak, Jacek (Editor), Krzeszowski, Tomasz P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631620039 ISBN-13: 9783631620038 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $76.29 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 410.942 |
| LCCN: 2011278014 |
| Series: Warsaw Studies in English Language and Literature |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contrastive linguistics has a much longer history than is commonly assumed in the literature on the subject. This monograph is an account of contrastive studies conducted in England and documented in written materials originating between the middle of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century. These materials show that contrastive studies were conducted systematically, covered a large scope of language data in various languages, and occasioned a number of theoretical and methodological issues, anticipating those that have constituted the mainstream of modern contrastive studies. Among them were negative and positive transfer, with the accompanying efforts to counteract the former and utilize the latter, as well as the notorious difficulties with establishing the necessary tertium comparationis, though not expressly formulated, inevitably hovering in the wings, and occasionally prompting new methodological techniques. |
