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LINGUIST List 17.1329

Sun Apr 30 2006

Books: Translation: Doherty

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org>

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Structural Propensities: Doherty
Message 1: Structural Propensities: Doherty
Date: 18-Apr-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Structural Propensities: Doherty


Title: Structural Propensities
Subtitle: Translating nominal word groups from English into German
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 65
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=BTL%2065

Author: Monika Doherty, Humboldt University, Berlin
Hardback: ISBN: 902721672X Pages: 196 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902721672X Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 118.00
Abstract:

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.

Table of contents

Preface vii-ix
Introduction xi-xxi
1. Theoretical and methodological aspects of basic concepts 1-33
2. Discourse-appropriate distribution of information in different classes
of English and German sentences 35-71
3. The translation of nominal word groups: DP-internal restructuring 73-104
4. Reorganizing dependencies 105-130
5. Cross-sentential restructuring of NPs and prospective relevance 131-157
6. Retrospective and prospective aspects of structural propensities 159-183
References 185-192
Index 193-196

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                            German, Standard (deu)

Written In: English (eng )

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