The study of language and translation
By: [edited by] Willy Vandeweghe, Sonia Vandepitte and Marc Van de Velde
Contributors: Cercle belge de linguistique
Series: Belgian journal of linguistics -- 21; Belgian journal of linguistics -- 21.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789027226815
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Congresses; Language and languages; Langage et langues; Congrès; Vertalen; Översättning; Språk
Description: The volume contains a selection of papers from the congress on the topic of 'The Study of Language and Translation', held in Ghent in January 2006. Its theme is the interface between Linguistics and Translation Studies. The volume hosts contributions from leading scholars in the field such as Mona Baker, Andrew Chesterman, Christiane Nord, and others. Some articles are theoretical but the majority relies on empirical data. Many of those are in some way or another tributary to the corpus approach, with translation universals as a recurring theme. Various methodologies are suggested for the investigation of similarities, metacommunication, borrowings, collocations, and other topics. The differences between translations and their source texts and those between translated and non-translated texts are explored in various ways. The findings yield hypotheses about the mechanisms in the process of translation and the cognitive viewpoint is never far away. As a whole, the volume presents the richness of the field of descriptive Translation Studies and the complexities involved in its linguistic approach.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Patterns of idiomaticity in translated vs. non-translated text / Mona Baker; title: Prosodic and pragmatic universals in translating clitics : the case of the Spanish translation of French clitics / Kris Buyse; title: Diminutive expressions in translation : a comparative study of English and Czech / Jana Chamonikolasová and Jiří Rambousek; title: Similiarity analysis and the translation profile / Andrew Chesterman; title: Is explicitation in translation cognitively related to linguistic explicitness? : a study on interclausal relationships / Anna Espunya; title: Corpus-driven hypothesis generation in translation studies, contrastive linguistics and text : a case study of demonstratives in Spanish and Dutch parallel texts / Patrick Goethals; title: A cognitive linguistic approach to translation shifts / Sandra L. Halverson; title: Studying Anglicisms with comparable and parallel corpora / Sara Laviosa; title: Clause structure and subjectivity in English and Finnish : what changes in translation? / Marjatta Lehtinen; title: A corpus-based analysis of lexical items conveying body language in the COVALT corpus / Josep Marco and Josep Guzman; title: A phatic function in translation : metacommunication as a case in point / Christiane Nord; title: Semantic and pragmatic meanings in translation / Sonia Vandepitte.