The expression of time in English and Czech children's literature
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11210/21:10430399
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.101.12mal" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.101.12mal</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.101.12mal" target="_blank" >10.1075/scl.101.12mal</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The expression of time in English and Czech children's literature
Original language description
The chapter explores the expression of the concept of time in children's narrative fiction cross-linguistically, comparing Czech and English. Specifically, it analyses multi-word units and patterns which the respective languages employ when referring to time. The new Engrammer software was developed to facilitate the extraction of n-grams with lemmatised cores and positional mobility, making it possible to compare temporal patterns in English with those used in highly inflectional Czech with variable word-order. The results of the study suggest that in children's fiction in both languages, time plays an important role in structuring the text, frequently creating dramatic effects. Even though the formal means of expressing time may differ between English and Czech (e.g. diminutives in Czech vs. phrasal description in English), register appears to substantially influence the way time is framed in children's literature in both languages.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
ISBN
978-90-272-0968-9
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
283-304
Number of pages of the book
307
Publisher name
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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