Evaluative Meaning in Translation

Abstract

Evaluative meaning is frequently understood as a form of connotation, pertaining to single lexical items. However, the term has recently been applied also to longer stretches of text, spanning several words. The paper generally deals with the latter aspect and provides a corpus-driven analysis of several Slovene and English phrases that may appear semantically neutral, yet turn out to be heavily non-neutral in terms of their semantic properties. After a short introduction of the main approaches to the topic, including its dilemmas, the paper focuses on the L1-into-L2 translation of such strings, with particular emphasis on proper rendering of the evaluative meaning. While further research is warranted into the matter, the work presented here attests to the complex and ubiquitous nature of the Sinclairian extended unit of meaning.

Morpholexical Properties of English and Slovenian Masculine/Femininenouns for Professions

“…He discusses the nouns job and career and shows that they both convey a similar semantic preference, yet corpus hits show that the typical collocates of career more often express a positive semantic prosody. In this respect semantic prosody refers to the positive and negative associations acquired by neutral words when they co-occur with other words (Šorli, 2012 and2013;Gabrovšek, 2014;Jurko, 2015).…”

Французькі Оцінно-Розмовні Засоби Персонажного Мовлення В Українському Перекладі

“…Оцінність під різними кутами зору розглядається у працях українських та закордонних мовознавців: термінологічні та функційні проблеми оцінних лексем (Білас, 2010;2014;Bilas, 2020;Буяр, 2009;Дейна, 2014;Morley & Partington, 2009;Федорова, 2013;Шатілова, 2016;Philip, 2010;Çepik, 2006). Відтворення емоційної лексики та пейоративів у конкретних художніх творах аналізують А. Білас (2014), П. Журко (Jurko, 2015), М. Сайко (2015), З. Тимняк і О. Гаврилів (2017) та ін.…”