Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

“In sum, this collection makes remarkable methodological and theoretical contributions to contrastive linguistics, discourse-pragmatic and genre studies. ... provide thought-provoking views on the discourse-pragmatics and text-constructing characteristics such as modals, evidentials, cohesion and coherent devices, etc ... .” (Weiqian Liu and Yi'na Wang, English Text Construction, Vol. 14 (1), 2021)

“The different chapters illustrate the variety of discourse-pragmatic topics that can be explored in corpus linguistics. Next to the quantitative refinement they allow for, corpora give access to authentic examples of language in context. This, in fact, is one of the assets of the book: not only do the contributors illustrate their points with many corpus examples, but they also provide detailed descriptions of these. … The contrastive perspective adds an interesting dimension to the volume … .” (Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Discourse Studies, Vol. 20 (04), 2018)