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Cross-linguistic variation in system and text : a methodology for the investigation of translations and comparable texts / by Elke Teich.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Teich, Elke, 1963-
- Series:
- Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP]
- Text, translation, computational processing ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contrastive linguistics.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Language and languages--Variation.
- Language and languages.
- English language--Translating into German.
- English language.
- German language--Translating into English.
- German language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The intuition that translations are somehow different from texts that are not translations has been around for many years, but most of the common linguistic frameworks are not comprehensive enough to account for the wealth and complexity of linguistic phenomena that make a translation a special kind of text. The present book provides a novel methodology for investigating the specific linguistic properties of translations. As this methodology is both corpus-based and driven by a functional theory of language, it is powerful enough to account for the multi-dimensional nature of cross-linguistic variation in translations and cross-lingually comparable texts.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. State-of-the-art
- Chapter 3. Theory and model of cross-linguistic variation
- Chapter 4. System: English-German grammatical contrasts and commonalities
- Chapter 5. Text: English-German comparable texts and translations
- Chapter 6. Summary and conclusions
- Appendix A: Text sources
- Appendix Β: Statistical table
- Appendix C: Analysis results in tabular form
- Notes
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Habilitation Universität des Saarlandes 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-268) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110896541
- 3110896540
- OCLC:
- 952748540
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