Monika Pleyer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Monika Pleyer plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. Impoliteness and pragmatic preferences in German translations of British and Irish children’s fiction Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli (eds.), pp. 74–95 | Chapter
This paper argues that linguistic impoliteness in British and Irish children’s fiction undergoes some severe changes when translated into German. A novel system with five translation strategies is developed to account for the omission, weakening or aggravation of impolite utterances in the… read more
2017 Chapter 10. Identities and impoliteness in translated Harry Potter novels Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, Kecskés, István and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 231–253 | Chapter
This paper applies Culpeper’s (2011) impoliteness strategies to children’s novels, arguing that impoliteness is used in children’s texts to construct, attack and consolidate character identity. In an analysis of the Harry Potter series it shows how the use of impolite token structures changes in… read more