A corpus-based study of the use of Spanish demonstratives as translation equivalents of English demonstratives

Labrador, Belén

doi:10.1080/0907676x.2010.481047

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“…Specifically, the proportion of use of a given demonstrative form (e.g., this versus that) seems to vary strongly as a function of text or discourse genre. For instance, researchers in the field of English as a second language (L2) collected academic essays from students in different countries, and compared their demonstrative use with similar essays written in students' native language (L1) (e.g., Blagoeva, 2004;Labrador, 2011;Lenko-Szymanska, 2004;Petch-Tyson, 2000;Oh, 2009). The varied results of underuse or overuse of demonstrative forms between L1 and L2 are less relevant here than the observation that on average about 70% of all demonstrative forms in all these corpora is 'proximal'.…”

Section: The Study Of Endophoric Demonstrative Usementioning

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“…Such a predilection for anaphoric use of ‘distal’ demonstratives can also be found in news corpora (Botley & McEnery, 2001a ) in which information is clearly targeted towards the news item’s consumer. Other genres, such as fiction or evaluative discourse, do not directly seem to result in clear preferences, probably because they represent too broad and varied text categories (Ariel, 1988 ; R. S. Kirsner, 1979 ; Labrador, 2011 ; Potts & Schwarz, 2010 ). Nevertheless, the specific text or discourse genre seems a clear and reliable top-down factor influencing a speaker’s or writer’s choice of demonstrative form (see also Gundel, Hedberg, & Zacharski, 1988 ).…”

Section: Putative Parallels Between Exophoric and Endophoric Use Of Demonstrativesmentioning

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A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference

2020

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Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as they contribute to guiding the attention of our addressee to the specific entity we are talking about. Such demonstratives are acquired early in life, ubiquitous in everyday talk, often closely tied to our gestural communicative abilities, and present in all spoken languages of the world. Based on a review of recent experimental work, here we introduce a new conceptual framework of demonstrative reference. In the context of this framework, we argue that several physical, psychological, and referent-intrinsic factors dynamically interact to influence whether a speaker will use one demonstrative form (e.g., this) or another (e.g., that) in a given setting. However, the relative influence of these factors themselves is argued to be a function of the cultural language setting at hand, the theory-of-mind capacities of the speaker, and the affordances of the specific context in which the speech event takes place. It is demonstrated that the framework has the potential to reconcile findings in the literature that previously seemed irreconcilable. We show that the framework may to a large extent generalize to instances of endophoric reference (e.g., anaphora) and speculate that it may also describe the specific form and kinematics a speaker’s pointing gesture takes. Testable predictions and novel research questions derived from the framework are presented and discussed.

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Section: The Study Of Endophoric Demonstrative Usementioning

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Section: Putative Parallels Between Exophoric and Endophoric Use Of Demonstrativesmentioning

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A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference

2020

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“…Other genres, such as fiction or evaluative discourse, do not directly seem to result in clear preferences, probably because they represent too broad and varied text categories (Ariel, 1988;R. S. Kirsner, 1979;Labrador, 2011;Potts & Schwarz, 2010). Nevertheless, the specific text or discourse genre seems a clear and reliable top-down factor influencing a speaker's or writer's choice of demonstrative form (see also Gundel, Hedberg, & Zacharski, 1988).…”

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A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Demonstrative Reference

Peeters¹,

Krahmer²,

Maes³

2020

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Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as they contribute to guiding the attention of our addressee to the specific entity we are talking about. Such demonstratives are acquired early in life, ubiquitous in everyday talk, often closely tied to our gestural communicative abilities, and present in all spoken languages of the world. Based on a review of recent experimental work, we here introduce a new conceptual framework of demonstrative reference. In the context of this framework, we argue that several physical, psychological, and referent-intrinsic factors dynamically interact to influence whether a speaker will use one demonstrative form (e.g., this) or another (e.g., that) in a given setting. However, the relative influence of these factors themselves is argued to be a function of the cultural language setting at hand, the theory-of-mind capacities of the speaker, and the affordances of the specific context in which the speech event takes place. It is demonstrated that the framework has the potential to reconcile findings in the literature that previously seemed irreconcilable. We show that the framework may to a large extent generalize to instances of endophoric reference (e.g., anaphora) and speculate that it may also describe the specific form and kinematics a speaker’s pointing gesture takes. Testable predictions and novel research questions derived from the framework are presented and discussed.

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“…Whether the latter are translation trainees, fan or volunteering translators, interference can also be detected at the syntactic level with grammatical words such as demonstratives. The English-Spanish P-Actres parallel corpus, for instance, revealed that the use of demonstrative pronouns in translated Spanish texts was different from that in the Corpus compiled by the Spanish Royal Academy CREA (Labrador 2011). In particular, the neutral forms esto, eso and aquello are used more frequently in translated Spanish texts.…”

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Translation as a multilingual activity in the digital era

Vandepitte¹,

Lefever²

2018

Revue Française De Linguistique Appliquée

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A corpus-based study of the use of Spanish demonstratives as translation equivalents of English demonstratives

Cited by 38 publications

References 11 publications

A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference

A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference

A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Demonstrative Reference

Translation as a multilingual activity in the digital era

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