Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese Corpus Linguistic Contrastive Semantic Analysis

This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora and a parallel corpus. The exploration adopts a unique theoretical approach which integrates corpus-linguistic theories on meaning (as a social construct, usage and paraphrase) with a corpus-linguistic lexical model. It employs a new complex but workable methodology which combines computational tools with manual examination to tease meaning out of corpus evidence, to compare and contrast lexical items that do not match up neatly between languages. It looks at sadness expressions both within and across languages in terms of three corpus-linguistic structural categories, i.e. colligation, collocation and semantic association/preference, and paraphrase (both explicit and implicit) to capture their subtle nuances of meaning, disclose the culture-specific conceptualisations encoded in them, and highlight their respective cultural distinctiveness of emotion.

By presenting multidisciplinary original work, Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive lexical semantics, psychology, bilingual lexicography and language pedagogy.

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
Abbreviations and typographical conventions
1. Introduction
2. Emotions
3. Contrastive lexical semantics
4. Corpus linguistics, parallel corpora and cross-linguistic research
5. The corpus linguistics framework
6. Methodology
7. Contrastive analysis of sadness expressions in English and Chinese
8. Implications
9. Conclusions
Appendix
References
Index

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