Thomas C. Messerli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas C. Messerli plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 2950-578X | E-ISSN 2950-5798
Title
Pragmatics and Translation
Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 337] 2023. vii, 336 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
Articles
2023 Chapter 1. Interpreting, translating, transferring: Introducing the collection Pragmatics and Translation Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter
This introduction positions the themes of the collection within the field of pragmatics and translation studies. It outlines the breadth of the field from interpreting to sensory translation and discusses novel papers in four different parts. In the first three parts, translation is defined as… read more
2023 Chapter 10. Contrastive analysis of English fan and professional subtitles of Korean TV drama Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli (eds.), pp. 221–248 | Chapter
We compare fan subtitles and subtitles produced by professionals in order to detect what concepts each of them foreground, and how they differ in register and in translation strategy. Differences are systematically explored with the help of corpus-assisted discourse analysis to contrast two sets… read more
2022 Persuasive language and features of formality on the r /C hange M y V iew subreddit Formality and Informality in Online Performances, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 165–195 | Article
The paper investigates formal language in persuasive discourse on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit. We collected a corpus of 100 million messages, split into subcorpora based on the user-awarded marker delta, which rewards changing an original poster’s view. Assuming that formality/informality is… read more