Structural Propensities: Translating nominal word groups from English into German
Monika Doherty
[Benjamins Translation Library, 65] 2006. xxii, 196 pp.
Monika Doherty
List of John Benjamins publications for which Monika Doherty plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Translation Studies
2001 Discourse relators and the beginnings of sentences in English and German Languages in Contrast 3:2, pp. 223–251 | Article
Felicitous translations between English and German show that discourse relators like adversative connectors interact with the basic strategies of discourse linking superimposed upon the grammatical rules of word order. For initial position they compete with elements from the propositional meaning… read more
2001 Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and German Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István and Robert M. Harnish (eds.), pp. 273–292 | Article
1999 Clefts in Translations between English and German1 Target 11:2, pp. 289–315 | Article
A great number of translation problems are linguistic in nature, but they can only be properly diagnosed and their solutions 'objectively ' assessed if one takes account of the context in which the problematic elements occur. The paper focuses on a prototypical case of such translation problems:… read more
1998 Processing and Directionality in German and English Languages in Contrast 1:1, pp. 23–43 | Article
The paper discusses basic aspects of a general theory of contrastive stylistics, which is taken to result from the interaction of parameterized properties of languages with universal principles of language use. Proceeding from some basic psycholinguistic assumptions about language processing, the… read more
1997 'Acceptability' and Language-Specific Preference in the Distribution of Information Target 9:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The paper generalizes upon some basic aspects of acceptability concerning language-specific preferences in the distribution of information in original texts and translations. It is assumed that the pragmatic principle of Optimal Relevance and major grammatical parameters jointly determine… read more
1992 Relativity of sentence boundary Babel 38:2, pp. 72–78 | Article
Si le traducteur qui traduit de l'anglais en allemand, respecte les délimitations de la phrase anglaise, la phrase qu'il obtiendra en allemand sera souvent ressentie comme étant trop longue ou trop courte. Ce résultat est dû aux différences que la structure de l'information présente en anglais et… read more
1987 Text connectors — a reading aid Babel 33:4, pp. 212–217 | Article