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German translation: Kontrastive Linguistik

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English term or phrase:	contrastive linguistics
German translation:	Kontrastive Linguistik
Entered by:	Fabio Descalzi

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01:49 Oct 19, 2006

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Social Sciences - Linguistics

English term or phrase: contrastive linguistics

Hey, I'm preparing myself to write my final essay on a linguistic theme.
I thought I will start analysing what a text is, which are some characteristics of a text and than go further and analyse differnet aspects of different text types. (For example I thought to analyse discourses).
But I don't know how to start this analyse?(Could I do it contrastive, between German and English?)Or would it be more interesting to analyse newspaper articles or other written texts?
What would you advise?
Thanks a lot,

Emilia

Emilia Ajule

Kontrastive Linguistik

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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontrastive_Linguistik

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_linguistics
· Contrastive linguistics compares languages usually with the aim of assisting language learning by identifying important differences between the learner's native and target languages. Contrastive linguistics deals solely with present-day languages.

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Changes made by editors

Oct 19, 2006 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Term asked	Contrastive Linguistic => contrastive linguistics
Oct 19, 2006 - Changes made by Fabio Descalzi:
Language pair	German to English => English to German
Oct 19, 2006 - Changes made by Fabio Descalzi:
Field	Other => Social Sciences

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