Coreference in English and German
Sanna Engell
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Sanna Engell, Coreference in English and German (2016), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832593094
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Beschreibung / Abstract
Studying coreference is essential for investigating how texts are produced and understood. While several authors have analyzed coreference in English or in German, there exist so far only few contrastive studies of coreference in these two languages. This book contributes to closing this gap by providing an in-depth study of coreference in English and German in general and in English and German court decisions in particular.
The first part of this book presents a new framework of the linguistic devices for coreference in English and German, their functions and the factors which influence their use. This framework is then put to the test in a corpus study of British and German court decisions. The linguistic features of court decisions have been shown to be relatively strongly influenced by the legal system(s) and the legal culture(s) of their country of origin. It was therefore particularly interesting to analyze how these genre-related extralinguistic factors may influence the choice of devices for coreference in court decisions.
The first part of this book presents a new framework of the linguistic devices for coreference in English and German, their functions and the factors which influence their use. This framework is then put to the test in a corpus study of British and German court decisions. The linguistic features of court decisions have been shown to be relatively strongly influenced by the legal system(s) and the legal culture(s) of their country of origin. It was therefore particularly interesting to analyze how these genre-related extralinguistic factors may influence the choice of devices for coreference in court decisions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The concept of coreference
- 2.1 A definition of reference
- 2.2 Types of reference
- 2.3 A definition of coreference
- 2.4 Types of coreference
- 2.5 Syntactic categories in nominal coreference chains
- 3 Coreference chain elements in English and German: devices and functions
- 3.1 Devices for anaphoric coreference
- 3.2 Main devices for cataphoric coreference
- 3.3 Devices for non-directional coreference
- 3.4 Functions of coreference chain elements in English and German
- 3.5 Factors influencing the choice of coreferential devices
- 4 Related fields of research
- 4.1 Contrastive linguistics
- 4.2 Language and law
- 5 The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords and the Bundesgerichtshof in the legal systems of the United Kingdom and Germany
- 5.1 Legal traditions: common law and civil law
- 5.2 The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords and the Bundesgerichtshof
- 6 Methodology of the study of coreference in the court decisions
- 6.1 Compilation of the corpus
- 6.2 Steps in the analysis of the court decisions
- 7 Results and discussion
- 7.1 Frequencies and lengths of coreference chains
- 7.2 Types of coreference
- 7.3 Syntactic categories of the chain elements
- 7.4 Devices for coreference
- 7.5 Functions of the coreference chain elements
- 7.6 Factors influencing the choice of coreferential devices
- 8 Summary and conclusions
- References