Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation

Becher, Viktor; House, Juliane; Kranich, Svenja

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“…Existing contrastive studies of English and German examine textual instantiations of cohesive conjunctions, yet they are either limited to the investigation of individual devices in particular registers, e.g. Becher et al (2009), Kranich et al (2011), House (2011, or do not provide empirical evidence, e.g. Fabricius-Hansen (1999) or Doherty (2004).…”

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Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Vandelanotte¹,

Davidse²,

Gentens³

2014

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The progressive in South Asian and Southeast Asian varieties of English -147 mapping areal homogeneity and heterogeneity Marco Schilk and Marc Hammel Neology: from word to register 173 Antoinette Renouf viii Contents English amid(st) and among(st): a contrastive approach based on 207 Norwegian and Swedish translation Thomas Egan and Gudrun Rawoens Cohesive conjunctions in English and German: systemic contrasts and 229 textual differences Kerstin Kunz and Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Part 3. Second language acquisition "Anyway, the point I'm making is": lexicogrammatical relevance 265 marking in lectures Katrien L. B. Deroey Faux amis in speech and writing: a corpus-based study of English 293 false friends in the production of Spanish students M. Luisa Roca-Varela Automated classification of unexpected uses of this and that in a learner 309 corpus of English Thomas Gaillat, Pascale Sébillot and Nicolas Ballier Crude contours: a pilot study into the feasibility of charting student 325 speakers' proficiency †Monique van der Haagen, Pieter de Haan and Rina de Vries A longitudinal study of the syntactic development of very advanced 335 Dutch EFL writing Pieter de Haan and †Monique van der Haagen Vandelanotte (University of Namur). They were very pleased that Caroline Gentens and Ditte Kimps joined the editorial team.While naturally we accept the final responsibility for the choices made, we were very lucky in being guided by the conscientious advice of the following external referees: den Branden. We much appreciated their careful comments and suggestions for revision, which benefited both the papers selected for this volume and those eventually recommended to other publication outlets.Without the contributors, there obviously would not shave been a volume. We thank them for developing the studies they presented at ICAME 33 with an eye to the general coherence of this volume and for the good spirit in which the whole enterprise was conducted.Rodopi helped along the project with their usual friendly efficiency. Eric Van Broekhuizen was always ready to offer help and useful advice and we are very grateful to the series editors Christian Mair, Charles Meyer and Nelleke Oostdijk for having accepted the volume for publication in the series Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics.For generous financial support of the conference, thanks are due to the Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO), the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and the Leuven International Doctoral School for the Humanities and Social Sciences. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the GOAproject 12/007, for linguists, but for sociologists and historians as well. The corpus will be available in different formats, focusing not only on textual transcription, but also on visual representations and meta-textual information. Beal and Sen set out the main lines of a project to develop a corpus of eighteenth-century English phonology, based on eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and other texts dealing with pronunciation. ...

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2014

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“…On the one hand, the overall shifts bring about an alignment between dubbed and original film language in Italian; on the other, we hypothesise that such a considerable loss of demonstrative pronouns during the translation process may be triggered by the contrast between source and target languages, translation being a typical contact situation in which two languages are simultaneously processed by the translator (Mauranen 2004(Mauranen -2005Becher, House et al 2009). More specifically, systematic cross-linguistic differences may lead to avoidance, i.e.…”

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This and That in the Language of Film Dubbing: A Corpus-Based Analysis

Pavesi

2014

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Résumé de l'articleEn matière de traduction audiovisuelle, des recherches récentes se sont concentrées sur le langage employé aussi bien dans le dialogue original que dans le dialogue traduit, révélant ainsi différents niveaux d'alignement entre le dialogue fictif et la conversation spontanée. Dans ce contexte, les démonstratifs jouent un rôle décisif puisqu'ils constituent un moyen fondamental pour mettre en évidence des segments du discours et de la réalité extralinguistique de la langue parlée et qu'ils peuvent aussi jouer un rôle déterminant dans le langage cinématographique. En outre, les démonstratifs constituent souvent un terrain de contraste entre les langues, et leur traduction peut être exposée à des interférences dans le passage de la langue source vers la langue cible. Grâce à une approche quantitative et au recours aux corpus, la présente étude examine la fréquence d'occurrence des démonstratifs dans le langage du doublage italien et analyse les similarités, quant à cet aspect, entre le dialogue doublé et l'italien parlé ; de plus, elle s'interroge sur les opérations de traduction pouvant donner lieu aux résultats observés. Ainsi, tous les pronoms démonstratifs d'un petit corpus parallèle anglaisitalien de dialogues filmiques ont été codifiés selon trois aspects : le rôle syntaxique, la fonction pragmatique et l'opération de traduction. Les résultats démontrent que le recours aux démonstratifs est beaucoup plus restreint dans le doublage que dans la conversation en italien et que dans les dialogues source en anglais. Ces résultats ont été évalués sous l'angle du contraste interlinguistique entre l'italien et l'anglais et de la convergence du dialogue doublé vers le modèle du langage filmique italien original. RÉSUMÉEn matière de traduction audiovisuelle, des recherches récentes se sont concentrées sur le langage employé aussi bien dans le dialogue original que dans le dialogue traduit, révélant ainsi différents niveaux d'alignement entre le dialogue fictif et la conversation spontanée. Dans ce contexte, les démonstratifs jouent un rôle décisif puisqu'ils constituent un moyen fondamental pour mettre en évidence des segments du discours et de la réalité extralinguistique de la langue parlée et qu'ils peuvent aussi jouer un rôle déter-minant dans le langage cinématographique. En outre, les démonstratifs constituent souvent un terrain de contraste entre les langues, et leur traduction peut être exposée à des interférences dans le passage de la langue source vers la langue cible. Grâce à une approche quantitative et au recours aux corpus, la présente étude examine la fréquence d'occurrence des démonstratifs dans le langage du doublage italien et analyse les similarités, quant à cet aspect, entre le dialogue doublé et l'italien parlé ; de plus, elle s'interroge sur les opérations de traduction pouvant donner lieu aux résultats observés. Ainsi, tous les pronoms démonstratifs d'un petit corpus parallèle anglais-italien de dialogues filmiques ont été codifiés selon trois aspects : le rôle syntaxique, la fo...

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“…Studies in that project found, among other things, a trend towards a replacement of hypotactic concessive structures, which require a verb-final subordinate clause as in example (1b), by paratactic ones, which coordinate two verb-second main clauses, as in example (1a) (Becher 2011 They also found an increasing use of sentence-initial concessive conjunctions such as aber and doch (Becher et al 2009). Using their diachronic corpus method, I investigate in the present paper whether their findings can be reproduced in the genre of business articles.…”

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“…In another study using the same corpus of popular science articles, Becher et al (2009) investigate the translation of the English sentence-initial concessive conjunction but into German. They find a lower frequency of sentence-initial aber and doch (both mean 'but') compared to but (Becher et al 2009: 143), arguing that German has "a stricter organization of the sentence in terms of given and new information than English," so that "German prefers to use a sentence-internal connective in many situations where English would use a sentence-initial one" (Becher et al 2009: 137).…”

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Structural effects of English–German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles

Bisiada

2016

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Studies on a variety of languages have observed a shift away from hypotactic, hierarchical structures towards paratactic, incremental structures, and have attributed this to language contact with English in translation. This paper investigates such a shift towards parataxis as the preferred structure of concessive constructions in German business articles. To this effect, a diachronic corpus method that has been applied to popular science articles in existing studies is adopted and applied to business articles, in an attempt to reproduce existing findings for this genre. This method is complemented by a corpus of manuscripts which allow to control for the effect of editing on the translated texts. Based on the analysis of hypotactic and paratactic translations of English concessive conjunctions between 1982/83 and 2008, I argue that hypotactic structures are indeed used less frequently in translated texts, but that this development is restricted to translated language. In non-translated texts, the use of hypotactic conjunctions has increased. The use of sentence-initial conjunctions, however, does seem to spread in this genre (as was reported for popular science), which may be further evidence for it to be a case of language change through contact in translation.

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Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation

Cited by 51 publications

References 32 publications

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics

This and That in the Language of Film Dubbing: A Corpus-Based Analysis

Structural effects of English–German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles

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