Theme in English and German : A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of Clause Openings in Original and Translated Texts / Jonas Freiwald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freiwald, Jonas, author.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; Volume 112.

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series ; Volume 112

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Topic and comment.

English language.

German language--Topic and comment.

German language.

English language--Clauses.

German language--Clauses.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Systemic grammar.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Summary:

This book sheds light on one of the most elusive concepts of the systemic functional framework, Theme, by comparing it with different approaches, related concepts, and realizations in different languages and by examining empirically different Theme models, contrastive differences, and translation effects.

Contents:

Intro

Theme in English and German

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Research objectives and structure of the book

Chapter 2 English and German clause structure

2.1 Basic English clause structure

2.2 Basic German clause structure and field analysis

2.2.1 Forefield

2.2.2 Midfield

2.3 Comparison between English and German clause structures

2.4 Animacy, agency, and sentience of subjects

Chapter 3 Systemic Functional Linguistics

3.1 General concepts of SFL

3.2 Metafunctions

3.3 experiental metafunction

3.4 interpersonal metafunction

3.5 textual metafunction

Chapter 4 Theme

4.1 The meaning of Theme in SFL

4.1.1 Theme as the point of departure of the message

4.1.2 Theme and method of development

4.1.3 Theme as a wave

4.2 Rheme

4.3 Theme in other frameworks and related concepts

4.4 Theme in English

4.5 Multiple Themes

4.6 Marked Themes

4.7 Theme in other languages

4.8 Theme in German

4.9 English-German comparison of Theme

4.10 Theme in translations

4.11 Hypotheses

Chapter 5 Basic concepts in translation studies

5.1 Translation equivalence, procedures, and shifts

5.2 Translation features and translationese

5.3 Corpus-based translation studies

Chapter 6 Methodology

6.1 The corpus

6.2 Annotations tools

6.3 Annotation decisions

6.4 Statistical testing

Chapter 7 Theme in German

7.1 Multiple Themes and Theme markedness

7.2 Participant Themes and process types

7.3 Circumstances

7.4 Subject animacy and sentience

7.5 Subject identifiability

7.6 Discussion of registers

Chapter 8 Theme in English

8.1 Multiple Themes and Theme markedness

8.2 Participant Themes and process types

8.3 Circumstances

8.4 Subject animacy and sentience.

8.5 Discussion of registers

Chapter 9 Theme differences between English and German

9.1 Multiple Themes and Theme markedness

9.2 Participant Themes and process types

9.3 Circumstances

9.4 Subject animacy and sentience

9.5 Subject identifiability

9.6 Discussion of register differences

Chapter 10 Theme in English-German translations

10.1 Descriptive analysis

10.1.1 Multiple Themes and Theme markedness

10.1.2 Participant Themes and process types

10.1.3 Circumstances

10.1.4 Subject animacy and sentience

10.1.5 Subject identifiability

10.2 Inferential analysis

10.2.1 English to German translations

10.2.1.1 Results

10.2.1.2 Discussion

10.2.2 German to English translations

10.2.2.1 Results

10.2.2.2 Discussion

Chapter 11 Summary and conclusion

References

Appendix

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Freiwald, Jonas Theme in English and German

ISBN:

9789027249500

9027249504

OCLC:

1391439081