17.1329, Books: Translation: Doherty

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Date: 18-Apr-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Structural Propensities: Doherty 

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:17:18
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Structural Propensities: Doherty 

Title: Structural Propensities 
Subtitle: Translating nominal word groups from English into German 
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 65  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=BTL%2065 

Author: Monika Doherty, Humboldt University, Berlin

Hardback: ISBN: 902721672X Pages: 196 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902721672X Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 118.00

Abstract:

This book focuses on the translation of English academic texts into German,
closely analysing the structural and discourse properties of original
sentences and their possible translations. It consists of six chapters,
with more than a hundred carefully discussed examples, and presents the
author's results of a series of research projects which have successively
dealt with the typologically determined conditions for
discourse-appropriate uses of word order, case, voice (perspective) and
structural explicitness in simple and complex sentences or sequences of
sentences. 

The theoretical and methodological assumptions of the book follow a
basically generative approach in studying the interaction between
semantic-pragmatic and phonological-syntactic properties of the linguistic
forms as they are involved in the perception of written language. The
linguistic and psycholinguistic models accessed are also introduced in
detail to promote comprehension for the interested reader with an
alternative theoretical background, whether scholar, student or translator. 

Table of contents

Preface  vii-ix  
Introduction  xi-xxi  
1. Theoretical and methodological aspects of basic concepts  1-33  
2. Discourse-appropriate distribution of information in different classes
of English and German sentences  35-71  
3. The translation of nominal word groups: DP-internal restructuring  73-104  
4. Reorganizing dependencies  105-130  
5. Cross-sentential restructuring of NPs and prospective relevance  131-157  
6. Retrospective and prospective aspects of structural propensities  159-183  
References  185-192  
Index  193-196 

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German, Standard (deu)

Written In: English  (eng)

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