Tiina Puurtinen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tiina Puurtinen plays a role.
2007 Evaluative noun phrases in journalism and their translation from English into Finnish Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Lisbon 2004, Gambier, Yves, Miriam Shlesinger † and Radegundis Stolze (eds.), pp. 213–222 | Chapter
The article compares the frequencies, functions and effects of evaluative premodified noun phrases (NPs) in English and Finnish newspaper and magazine texts and discusses the relevance of potential differences to translation. In addition to neutral specifications, premodifiers in NPs often express… read more
2004 Explicitation of clausal relations: A corpus-based analysis of clause connectives in translated and non-translated Finnish children’s literature Translation Universals: Do they exist?, Mauranen, Anna and Pekka Kujamäki (eds.), pp. 165–176 | Article
2000 Translating linguistic markers of ideology Translation in Context: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Granada 1998, Chesterman, Andrew, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador and Yves Gambier (eds.), pp. 177–186 | Article
1997 Syntactic Norms in Finnish Children's Literature Target 9:2, pp. 318–331 | Article
Owing to children's developing reading skills and world knowledge, readability (comprehensibility as well as speakability) can be regarded as an important requirement of children's literature. This article focusses on one determinant of readability, the frequency of nonflnite constructions in… read more
1994 Dynamic style as a parameter of acceptability in translated children’s books Translation Studies: An Interdiscipline: Selected papers from the Translation Studies Congress, Vienna, 1992, Snell-Hornby, Mary, Franz Pöchhacker and Klaus Kaindl (eds.), pp. 83–90 | Article
1989 Assessing Acceptability in Translated Children's Books Target 1:2, pp. 201–213 | Article
The purpose of the study outlined in this article is to compare the acceptability of style in two contemporary Finnish translations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz with special reference to the effect of sentence structure on acceptability. For the purposes of this study, acceptability is… read more