Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations
Edited by Julia Lavid-López, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
[Benjamins Translation Library, 158] 2021. vi, 345 pp.
Julia Lavid-López
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julia Lavid-López plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Translation Studies
Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing
Edited by Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] 2007. xxx, 481 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2021 Chapter 7. English and Spanish discourse markers in translation: Corpus analysis and annotation Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations, Lavid-López, Julia, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla (eds.), pp. 177–207 | Chapter
The study and annotation of discourse markers (DMs) in the context of translation is a much needed and challenging task not only for descriptive translation studies, but also for Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Their various meanings are difficult to identify and annotate, even… read more
2021 Corpus resources and tools: Looking back and going ahead Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations, Lavid-López, Julia, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2019 Discourse annotation in the MULTINOT corpus: Issues and challenges Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications, Doval, Irene and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto (eds.), pp. 159–182 | Chapter
This chapter summarises and discusses recent work on the development of a bilingual (English-Spanish) corpus consisting of original comparable and parallel texts from a variety of genres and annotated with complex linguistic features such as modality and evidentiality, metadiscourse markers, and… read more
2018 Contrastive analysis of interactional discourse markers in English and Spanish newspaper texts The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 75–108 | Chapter
This chapter reports on the contrastive analysis of interpersonal discourse markers (IDMs) in a sample of English and Spanish newspaper texts in three genres: news reports, editorials and letters to the editor. The sample was divided into a training dataset of eighteen (English-Spanish) comparable… read more
2014 Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project: Issues and problems The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 57–86 | Article
In this paper we outline a number of issues and problems which arise during
the process of contrastive human-coded corpus annotation of certain semantic
and discourse categories within the framework of the CONTRANOT project,
aimed at the creation and validation of contrastive functional… read more
2013 Thematic variation in English and Spanish newspaper genres: A contrastive corpus-based study Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 261–286 | Article
This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres – news reports and commentaries – in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain… read more
2007 Editorial introduction Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. xvii–xxv | Miscellaneous
2007 Global and local attention in task-oriented conversation: An empirical investigation Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 313–326 | Article
The genre of task-oriented conversation has not received much attention within the linguistic literature, but its study is highly relevant for spoken dialogue systems, where dialogue is focused on accomplishing a concrete task. Using a sample of 30 dialogues, randomly selected from a larger corpus… read more
2004 Nuclear transitivity in English and Spanish: A contrastive functional study Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description, Davidse, Kristin and Liesbet Heyvaert (eds.), pp. 75–103 | Article
This paper presents a contrastive overview of nuclear transitivity in English and Spanish from a systemic-functional perspective. The study attempts to achieve two main goals. Firstly, we investigate the usefulness of the transitive/ergative distinction developed by Davidse (1992) for material… read more
2003 Rhetorical and thematic patterns in scheduling dialogues: A generic characterization Functions of Language 10:2, pp. 147–178 | Article
This paper provides a corpus-based generic characterization of appointment-scheduling dialogues — a type of task-oriented conversation — by concentrating on the rhetorical and thematic choices made by the speakers that produce them. The analytical tools used for this study are Rhetorical Structure… read more
1998 Information progression strategies in administrative forms: A cross-linguistic study Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English, Sánchez-Macarro, Antonia and Ronald Carter (eds.), pp. 99–116 | Article