34.2779, Books: Theme in English and German: Freiwald (2023)

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Subject: 34.2779, Books: Theme in English and German: Freiwald (2023)

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Date: 20-Sep-2023
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Theme in English and German: Freiwald (2023)


Title: Theme in English and German
Subtitle: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in
original and translated texts
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics   112
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.112

Author: Jonas Freiwald
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214072 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214072 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214072 Price: Europe EURO 116.60
Abstract:

This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of
Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical
results are based on thousands of clauses from four different
registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple
Themes, marked Themes, participant roles, agency, and identifiability,
and are tested statistically using regression analyses. The book sheds
light on one of the most elusive concepts of the systemic functional
linguistics framework, Theme, by comparing it with different
approaches, related concepts, and realizations in different languages
and by examining empirically different Theme models, contrastive
differences, and translation effects. Given that Theme in English and
German is realized formally by being the first clause constituent and
is thus, effectively, a syntactic phenomenon, this monograph is not
only relevant for functional linguists, but any interested in English
and German word order differences and their effects on translations.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)

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