Kerstin Kunz

Kerstin Kunz

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kerstin Kunz plays a role.

Articles

Kunz, Kerstin, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, José Manuel Martínez Martínez, Katrin Menzel and Erich Steiner. 2018. Shallow features as indicators of English–German contrasts in lexical cohesion. Languages in Contrast 18:2, pp. 175–206
This paper contrasts lexical cohesion between English and German spoken and written registers, reporting findings from a quantitative lexical analysis. After an overview of research aims and motivations we formulate hypotheses on distributions of shallow features as indicators of lexical cohesion… read more | Article
Our paper outlines a contrastive account of cohesive substitution in English and German. We start with a clarification of the relationship between cohesive reference, substitution/ellipsis and lexical cohesion in terms of prototypical lexicogrammatical realizations, semantic functionalities and… read more | Article
Kunz, Kerstin, Sara Castagnoli and Natalie Kübler. 2010. Corpora in translator training: A program for an eLearning course. Why Translation Studies Matters, Gile, Daniel, Gyde Hansen and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 195–208
Within recent years, corpora have gained considerable importance in Translation Studies, and a number of studies have also appeared which show their value for translator training (e.g. Zanettin et al. 2003). However, results from a recent survey reveal that current practising and trainee… read more | Article
Kunz, Kerstin. 2007. A method for investigating coreference in translations and originals. Information Structuring Resources in Contrast, Behrens, Bergljot, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 267–287
Coreference is one essential strategy of coherence and cohesion as it establishes connectivity in texts. This connection is evoked by linguistic devices on the text surface but has to be interpreted mentally as a relation between extralinguistic referents. Since translators are concerned with the… read more | Article