In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

Austin, John; Baker, Mona

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“…His examples include: have a weak/soft spot for, getting off on the right/wrong foot, do badly/well for. In this respect, Baker (1992) holds a slightly different perception of idioms, as being more fixed and less transparent phrases.…”

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“…This type of phraseologism, like many others, occurs or has become "crystallized" following different levels of fixedness. To explore the combinations "não confunda X com Y" in more detail and their formulaic aspect, I present how Kjellmer (1991) and Baker (1992) discuss different levels of fixedness.…”

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“…ii Original: "... um estoque de expressões pré-fabricadas ..." (Tagnin 2013: 118) Both authors discuss the different types of combinations following a continuum from the most to the least fixed: fossilized phrases; semi-fossilized phrases and variable phrases, according to Kjellmer (1991) and idioms, fixed expression, collocation, and semi-fixed expression, according to Baker (1992).…”

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“…Variability in such groups is extremely low, normally represented by inflexional endings, indicating plural, as in Cocker Spaniels, for example (Kjellmer 1991: 112). According to Baker (1992), idioms represent the highest level of fixedness, like bury the hatchet, a combination that allows no variability in form, and is highly opaque, since its meaning cannot be deduced from their individual components. For her, other structures displaying a considerably high level of fixedness are fixed expressions, such as Merry Christmas and Yours sincerely, allowing no variation in form, but, different from idioms, are highly transparent.…”

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“…But, their peculiar syntax and semantics led me to consider them as a subset of stock witticisms, namely: nonsense stock witticisms. If, on the one hand, stock witticisms comprise fixed expressions with different structures (Is the Pope Catholic?/Where's the fire?, for example); on the other hand, nonsense stock witticisms comprise semifixed expressions with similar structures (Não confunda X com Y), in general, displaying a predominantly nonsense language Then, by considering such combinations as a subset of stock witticisms in BP, my inquiry draws on notions related to phraseologisms (Kjellmer 1991;Gries 2008); fixed formulae, semifixed formulae, situational formulae, and stock phrases (Baker 1992;Camargo & Aubert 2006;Tagnin 2005Tagnin /2013. To explore the linguistic features, the effect, and the function of those combinations, I will resort to the ideas by Koestler (1964); Norrick (1984); Tigges (1988), and Couder (2019), among others.…”

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In this manuscript, I discuss the linguistic traits, the effect, and the function of combinations like “do not confuse X with Y”, commonly found in Brazilian Portuguese (não confunda X com Y). For that, I touch on issues related to phraseologisms, situational formulae, and stock phrases. Due to their peculiar syntax and semantics, I also discuss the presence of bisociative and absurd humor in such combinations. The study corpus consists of 40 occurrences extracted from the internet, mainly from blogs. My analysis has both reiterated the highly colloquial status of such structures, as a type of stock phrase used in a specific situation (warning someone about a possible confusion) and revealed that they make use of different linguistic mechanisms associated with nonsense, especially, through spoonerisms and wordplays, the result of which are illogical and absurd constructions. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/soc/0022/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Discourse connectives are often said to be language specific, and therefore not easily paired with a translation equivalent in a target language. However, few studies have assessed the magnitude and the causes of these divergences. In this paper, we provide an overview of the similarities and discrepancies between causal connectives in two typologically related languages: English and French. We first discuss two criteria used in the literature to account for these differences: the notion of domains of use and the information status of the cause segment. We then test the validity of these criteria through an empirical contrastive study of causal connectives in English and French, performed on a bidirectional corpus. Our results indicate that French and English connectives have only partially overlapping profiles and that translation equivalents are adequately predicted by these two criteria.

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In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

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Brief Analysis of Nonsense Stock Witticisms in Brazilian Portuguese

Brief Analysis of Nonsense Stock Witticisms in Brazilian Portuguese

English and French causal connectives in contrast

Exploring the Dynamics of Miscommunication between Arabic and English in Economic Discourse

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