Structural Propensities: Translating nominal word groups from English into German: 65 (Benjamins Translation Library) - Hardcover

Doherty, Monika

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902721672X ISBN 13: 9789027216724

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006

Synopsis

This book focuses on the translation of English academic texts into German, closely analysing the structural and discourse properties of original sentences and their possible translations. It consists of six chapters, with more than a hundred carefully discussed examples, and presents the author’s results of a series of research projects which have successively dealt with the typologically determined conditions for discourse-appropriate uses of word order, case, voice (perspective) and structural explicitness in simple and complex sentences or sequences of sentences. The theoretical and methodological assumptions of the book follow a basically generative approach in studying the interaction between semantic-pragmatic and phonological-syntactic properties of the linguistic forms as they are involved in the perception of written language. The linguistic and psycholinguistic models accessed are also introduced in detail to promote comprehension for the interested reader with an alternative theoretical background, whether scholar, student or translator.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902721672X
• ISBN 13: 9789027216724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220