On Contrastive Linguistics

This book contains 12 papers on Contrastive Linguistics (CL) which were published in different scholarly journals between 1990 to the present. In addition, the ‘Introduction’ which is especially written for this volume introduces the discipline of CL, tracing its evolution in recent history and outlining in particular the crucial role played by CL in TEFL/TESL. The papers present reports of different research projects, which range from traditional topics on syntax, to error patterns, interlanguage, metaphorical language, and different aspects of discourse analysis including contrastive rhetoric. The approach of the present collection is broad, therefore in addition to comparing and contrasting English and Persian, the volume also contains papers on CL between English and Azerbaijani-Turkish languages on diverse topics such as thematization, and lexical and syntactic collocations. This collection should be of interest to instructors, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students alike