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List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK), Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway), Markéta Malá (Charles University, Czech Republic) and Denisa Sebestová (Charles University, Czech Republic)
1. The State of the Art and Recent Trends in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics, Karin Aijmer (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Part I. Lexico-Grammar in Contrast
2. Seeing through Languages and Registers: A Closer Look at the Cognates See and Se, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway)
3. Periphrastic Genitive Constructions in English and Norwegian, Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway)
4. Double Object Constructions in English and Norwegian: Verbs of Sending, Bringing, Lending and Selling, Thomas Egan (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
5. Prepositional Patterns in English and Czech Newspaper Discourse, Denisa Sebestová and Markéta Malá (Charles University, Czech Republic)
6. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Journalistic Phraseology, Jiajin Xu, Guying Zhou, Xinlu Liu, Yuanyuan Wei, Ruchen Yu and Suhua Zhang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
7. Corpus-Based Contrast in Audiovisual Customization: A Pilot Study on Can/Could and Subject Pronouns in Spanish Dubbing, Camino Gutiérrez-Lanza and Rosa Rabadán (Universidad de León, Spain)
Part II. Discourse in Contrast
8. The Social Functions and Linguistic Patterns of Please and its Norwegian Correspondences, Stine Hulleberg Johansen and Kristin Rygg (University of Oslo and Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
9. Discourse Connectives in English and French: A Contrastive Study on Political Discourse, Diana Lewis (Aix Marseille Université, France)
10. Reporting Verbs in English, Czech and Finnish, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK) and Lenka Fárová (Charles University, Czech Republic)
11. From Dashes to Dashes? A Contrastive Corpus Study of Dashes in English, German and Swedish, Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
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