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Book Review
Vaughan, Elaine
2015
April
Review: Aijmer, K. & Altenberg, B. (eds.) (2013). Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
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Contrastive analysis; corpus-based contrastive analysis; corpus-based approach; multilingual corpora; language comparison
Review: Aijmer, K. & Altenberg, B. (eds.) (2013). Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
                          

Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg’s edited volume brings together twelve papers which represent the state-of-the-art in corpus-based contrastive analysis. Contrastive analysis, and corpus-based contrastive analysis in particular, appear to be enjoying something of a revival, with the emphasis on ‘appear’: the former has a long history and, from at least the nineties on, there is a consistent line of enquiry evident in the literature relating to the latter. This volume is based on a workshop on ‘corpus-based contrastive analysis’ convened during the 2011 ICAME conference and, like the conference, in honour of Stig Johansson. Within the twelve individual papers by twenty-two international contributors that make up this volume, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish are discussed. It will be of use to the reader interested more broadly in how this ‘conversation’ between different disciplinary paradigms and corpus methodology is developing, as well as its primary audience: readers interested in contrastive linguistics (corpus-based or otherwise), translation studies and foreign language pedagogy.

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Romero Trillo, Jesus
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