Semantic Prosody in Translation: Slovene and English ADV-V combinations

Abstract

Semantic prosody is perhaps the most elusive meaning component established to date, and the present paper is a corpus-driven attempt to elucidate the meaning-forming process in some of the most frequent lexical items in Slovene and English. The underlying methodology is based on the novel top-down approach, which provides a semantically unmotivated point of view and is based on raw data, i.e., frequency of occurrence. The paper features a comparison of the pervasiveness of evident semantic prosody in high-frequency lexical items in Slovene and English, respectively. In closing it also deals with the problems involved in L1-L2 translation of the observed extended units of meaning, where possible translation equivalents exhibit varying levels of (mis)match in their semantic prosodies.

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“…As Baker [33] argues, corpora can be used to observe features that have been noted in translated texts in a systematic way. Accordingly, the translation shift is evident in frequency data, and can be analyzed in terms of the topics and semantic prosody of the collocation words [34][35][36].…”