title: Cultural Models Affecting Indian-English 'Matrimonials'  and British-English Contact Advertisements with a View to Marriage: A Corpus-based Analysis  
creator: Frey, Sandra
subject: ddc-400
subject: 400 Linguistics
subject: ddc-420
subject: 420 English
description: Contact advertisements as a text type have a history of more than 300 years. Despite their age, they are still important and made use of today. This is especially valid for India where marriages are often arranged to the very day. This condensed text type gives information about the cultural understanding of marriages. The present study, based on two corpora consisting of 750 advertisements in total, aims at a sociolinguistic analysis of matrimonial advertisements from India and Britain and an interpretation of its result in terms of cognitive linguistics by making inferences to a possible cultural model prevalent in the respective culture and triggering the language use. The theoretical basis is Quinn (1987)’s model of marriage.
date: 2015
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18303/1/Dissertation%20Sandra%20Frey.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00018303
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-183038
identifier:   Frey, Sandra  (2015) Cultural Models Affecting Indian-English 'Matrimonials' and British-English Contact Advertisements with a View to Marriage: A Corpus-based Analysis.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18303/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng