Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West

Contents: Dingfang Shu/Ken Turner: Introduction - Michiel Leezenberg: Gricean and Confucian Pragmatics: A Contrastive Analysis - Chungmin Lee: Information Structure in PA/SN or Descriptive/Metalinguistic Negation: With Reference to Scalar Implicatures - Yan Huang: Switch-reference in Amele and Logophoric Verbal Suffix in Gokana: A Generalized Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Analysis - Saeko Fukushima: Hearer's Aspect in Politeness: The Case of Requests - Jiaxuan Shen: Valency and Cognitive Frames for Three Constructions in Mandarin - Ren Zhang: Specialized Grounding in English and Chinese Existentials - Lei Zhu: Existentials, Possessives and their Grammaticalization into Perfectives: With Special Reference to Chinese you and English be and have - Chauncey C. Chu: A Contrastive Approach to Discourse Particles: A Case Study of the Mandarin UFP Ne - Dorota Klimek-Jankowska: Quantified Eventualities in Russian, Czech and Polish: An OT Analysis - Katsuhiko Yabushita: On the Cross-linguistic Correlation between the Usages of YES/NO Particles and the Presence/Absence of Negative Quantifiers - Renzhi Li: A Contrastive Study of the Semantic Functions and Pragmatic Uses of Modal Verbs in English and Chinese - Marc Duval: Modality and Polysemy: Toward an Implicational Map - Yili Shi: On Chinese Numeral Yi and Demonstrative Determiner Na versus English a and the: A Contrastive Analysis in a Discourse-Pragmatics Perspective - Erkki Ahlström: Reference and Complex Demonstratives in English and in Finnish - Johan van der Auwera: Prohibition: Constructions and Markers - Valentina Apresjan: The Pragmatics of Destiny in Russian and English (Towards a Description of Fundamental Cultural Concepts) - Jenny Yi-chun Kuo/Jiun-shiung Wu: Countability in English and Mandarin - Marie-Claude Paris: Mandarin gen and French et / avec: Another Look at Distributivity and Collectivity - Bergljot Behrens/Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen: The Relation Accompanying Circumstance Across Languages: Conflict between

The Editors: Dingfang Shu is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Research at Shanghai International Studies University. He is President of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Foreign Languages.
Ken Turner teaches linguistics and the philosophy of language at the University of Brighton. He is series co-editor of Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface and serves on the editorial boards of the Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique, Lódz Papers in Pragmatics, the International Review of Pragmatics and the Journal of Foreign Languages.