Text, context, concepts / edited by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia, 1952-

Series:

Text, translation, computational processing ; 4.

Text, translation, computational processing ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Communication--Psychological aspects.

Communication.

Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Metaphor.

Intercultural communication.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Contents:

1 Lexical transfer

Discourse and lexicalization / Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt 19

Communicative transfer of metonymic reference / Hans Strohner 35

On the mixing of conceptual metaphors / Christa J. Baldauf 47

Classifiers, metonymies, and genericity: A study of Vietnamese / Leila Behrens 65

Comparing apples and pears: Latent Semantic Analysis / Alex Deppert 127

2 Transfer between languages

Morning, noon and night: Denotational incongruencies between English and German / Olaf Jakel 159

Marked communication and cultural knowledge in lexis / Carlos Inchaurralde 179

Integrating translation theory and translation practice / Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt 199

Form symbolism across languages: Danish, Slovene, and Japanese / John M. Kennedy, Chang Hong Liu, Bradford H. Challis, Victor Kennedy 221

3 Transfer between functional varieties

Metaphors in expert and common-sense reasoning / Susanne Richardt 243

Accurate fuzziness as constructive reduction in communication / Hanna Pishwa 299

The misreporting of science: The debate about the Antarctic ozone hole / Wolf-Andreas Liebert 333

Levels of abstraction in specialist concepts as a translation problem / Radegundis Stolze 351.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110175533

OCLC:

50768077