11.2601, Qs: Negative Questions, Pragmatics/Film Dubbing

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Subject: 11.2601, Qs: Negative Questions, Pragmatics/Film Dubbing

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Date:  Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:00:46 +0900
From:  YANAGI Tomohiro <yanagi_t at mbox.media.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Answer to negative question

2)
Date:  Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:11:15 +0800
From:  "Xu Xiaofei" <tammyxu at 263.net>
Subject:  Pragmatics/film dubbing

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:00:46 +0900
From:  YANAGI Tomohiro <yanagi_t at mbox.media.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Answer to negative question

Dear editors and LINGUIST listers,
	
I'm interested in how to answer negative questions like (1) in many languages:
	
(1) Aren't you Japanese?
	
For example, in English, an answer to (1) would be 'No, I'm not Japanese' or
 'Yes, I'm Japanese.'  'No' is always used with negative sentences and 'yes'
 with positive sentences.
	
By contrast, Japanese exhibits a different behavior.  If a person who is ask
ed is Japanese, the person says 'Iie, nihonjin desu. ((lit.) No, I'm Japanes
e.'  If not Japanese, the answer is 'Hai, nihonjin dewa arimasen. ((lit.) Ye
s, I'm not Japanese.'  'Hai (yes)' and 'iie (no)' can be used with positive
and negative sentences in Japanese.

I want to examine crosslinguistically whether there is a correlation between
 this difference and syntactic difference .  If anyone of you helps me with
this survey, please e-mail me directly:

yanagi_t at mbox.media.nagoya-u.ac.jp

In addition,  please inform me of a paper or book concerning this subject.

Thank you in advance.


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:11:15 +0800
From:  "Xu Xiaofei" <tammyxu at 263.net>
Subject:  Pragmatics/film dubbing

Dear linguists:

I have been studying issues on the pragmatic adaptation theory's influences
on translation for film dubbing (of dialogs). I need to know how this
subject has been developing -- could anyone tell me something about the
relevant existing literature? I am in want of some bibliographical
information badly. Thank you very much! Any help will be highly appreciated.

Tammy Xu
Faculty of English Language and Culture
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangzhou, 510420
P. R. CHINA
tammyxu at 263.net


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