Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties

Goschler, Juliana

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“…From a theoretical perspective, our results contribute to other studies applying typology to translation (Slobin 1996b, 2005, Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2003, Cifuentes-Férez 2006, Ibarretxe-Antuñano and Filipović 2013 and in particular to forensic linguistic contexts (Filipović 2007b, Rojo and Cifuentes-Férez 2017. In a broader sense, these results also contribute to studies on motion events and the bilingual mind (Filipović 2010a, 2010b, 2011, Filipović and Geva 2012, Ellis and Cadierno 2009, Han and Cadierno 2010, Cadierno 2017, Goschler 2013, Berthele and Stocker 2016 Interpreting meaning in police interviews: Applied Language Typology in a Forensic Linguistics context…”

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Interpreting meaning in police interviews: Applied Language Typology in a Forensic Linguistics context

Filipović¹,

Hijazo‐Gascón²

2019

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The main aim of this paper is to raise awareness about the importance of language contrasts in legal interpreting contexts. The semantic typology of motion events put forward by Talmy (1991, 2000) and its implications for discourse and narrative (Slobin 1991, 1996, 2004, 2005) are used as an example of how an applied typology approach can be useful for the analysis of language contrasts in a forensic linguistics context. Applied Language Typology (Filipović 2008, 2017a, b) is used here to analyse transcriptions of police interviews that were mediated by an English-Spanish interpreter in California (USA) and an English-Portuguese interpreter in Norfolk (UK). The results of this analysis demonstrate that certain differences in semantic components of motion such as Manner, Cause and Deixis can lead interpreters to add, omit or modify the content of a message in the process of translation. This leads us to conclude that professional practices such as the production of bilingual transcripts and use of control interpreters, together with the inclusion of Applied Language Typology in interpreting training, would improve the quality of interpreting practices in legal contexts.

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Interpreting meaning in police interviews: Applied Language Typology in a Forensic Linguistics context

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Hijazo‐Gascón²

2019

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“…On the one hand, these examples may reflect a Turkish lexicalization type in that speakers used these verbs analogously to Turkish path verbs when German (Goschler et al, 2013, p. 244) or Danish (Suner Munoz & Jessen, 2016) lacked corresponding path verbs. On the other hand, the use of “semantically light”, generic or deictic motion verbs does not have to be the result of typologically determined influences, but may point to general learner strategies (Goschler, 2009, 2013) or to conceptually oral linguistic varieties (Berthele, 2004).…”

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The roles of language mode and dominance in French–German bilinguals’ motion event descriptions

Stocker

Berthelé

2019

Bilingualism

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Juggling with structurally and semantically different language systems leads to constructions that differ from the typical patterns in a language. Typical patterns in the domain of motion are characterized by more verbs encoding path in French; and more verbs encoding the manner of motion in German. An increase of manner verbs in French, for instance, can be ascribed to an influence from German. The extent of typical or reversed patterns depends on interrelated factors such as speaker-related idiosyncrasies, language dominance configurations, andarguablythe degree of language activation. Drawing on data from 154 French-German bilinguals who described motion events in different language modes, this paper combines interrelated questions on the role of language dominance, language mode manipulation and how these factors interact. Quantitative analyses on the use of motion verbs do not show the expected effects. The null results are discussed by comparing preceding studies showing contradictory findings.

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The effect of language mode on motion event descriptions in German–French bilinguals

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Stocker

2016

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When describing motion in space, speakers of French and German are known to show different preferences. In French, the verb typically encodes the path, whereas in German the manner in which the figure moves is mapped onto the verb. In this paper, this difference between the two languages is investigated, drawing on the data produced by forty participants. All participants are multilinguals, with German and French as their two strongest languages. They described fifty video clips in two sessions, once in monolingual and once in bilingual mode. The critical stimuli were always described in German in both language modes, the fillers in German in monolingual mode but in French in bilingual mode. The analyses of the manner and path verb uses show that, in a bilingual mode, speakers significantly converge towards the French model, that is, they reduce the preference for manner verbs and increase the proportion of path verbs.

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Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties

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Interpreting meaning in police interviews: Applied Language Typology in a Forensic Linguistics context

Interpreting meaning in police interviews: Applied Language Typology in a Forensic Linguistics context

The roles of language mode and dominance in French–German bilinguals’ motion event descriptions

The effect of language mode on motion event descriptions in German–French bilinguals

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