Publications

Publication details [#28180]

Touchstone, Ellen E., Robert B. Kaplan and Cynthia Hagstrom. 1996. ´Home sweet casa´ - access to home loans in Los Angeles: A critique of English and Spanish home loan brochures. Multilingua 15 (3) : 329–349.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

genre | minority language | text analysis | translation

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This study uses the translation-miscue paradigm to explore problems of literal translation in Spanish/English texts of home mortgage brochures produced by lending institutions in Los Angeles county.