LINGUIST List 17.1329

Sun Apr 30 2006

Books: Translation: Doherty

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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 originalsentences and their possible translations. It consists of six chapters,with more than a hundred carefully discussed examples, and presents theauthor's results of a series of research projects which have successivelydealt with the typologically determined conditions fordiscourse-appropriate uses of word order, case, voice (perspective) andstructural explicitness in simple and complex sentences or sequences ofsentences.

The theoretical and methodological assumptions of the book follow abasically generative approach in studying the interaction betweensemantic-pragmatic and phonological-syntactic properties of the linguisticforms as they are involved in the perception of written language. Thelinguistic and psycholinguistic models accessed are also introduced indetail to promote comprehension for the interested reader with analternative theoretical background, whether scholar, student or translator.

Table of contents

Preface vii-ixIntroduction xi-xxi1. Theoretical and methodological aspects of basic concepts 1-332. Discourse-appropriate distribution of information in different classesof English and German sentences 35-713. The translation of nominal word groups: DP-internal restructuring 73-1044. Reorganizing dependencies 105-1305. Cross-sentential restructuring of NPs and prospective relevance 131-1576. Retrospective and prospective aspects of structural propensities 159-183References 185-192Index 193-196

Linguistic Field(s): Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)                             German, Standard (deu)
Written In: English (eng )

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