Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.
Viktor Becher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Viktor Becher plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
2012 Changing conventions in English-German translations of popular scientific texts Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 315–334 | Article
This contribution summarizes results of the project Covert Translation, where we investigated the influence of Anglophone communicative conventions on German via translation. Our hypothesis was that the prestige of English as a lingua franca and the growing number of translations from English into… read more
2011 When and why do translators add connectives? A corpus-based study Target 23:1, pp. 26–47 | Article
Additions and omissions of connectives (e.g. conjunctions, connective adverbs, etc.) are a frequent phenomenon in translation. The present article reports on a study whose aim was to elucidate translators’ motivations for performing such shifts, focusing on the addition of connectives. The study… read more
2011 Introduction Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2011 A tentative typology of translation-induced language change Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 9–44 | Article
Language contact through translation (LCTT) is a particular source of contact-induced language change. While investigations into individual scenarios have shown its importance, major works on language contact have largely neglected this type of language contact. In particular, no attempt has been… read more
2009 Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 125–152 | Article
This contribution addresses the question of whether and how translation as a classic case of language contact can act as a trigger for convergence and divergence phenomena between two languages. We present two studies which indicate that translation-induced convergence does not occur… read more