What Can Contrastive Linguistics Tell Us about Translating Discourse Structure?

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dc.contributor.author	Korzen, Iørn
dc.contributor.author	Gylling, Morten
dc.date.accessioned	2011-10-31
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-01T12:46:02Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-01T12:46:02Z
dc.date.issued	2012-03-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8416
dc.description.abstract	This paper argues that translators can greatly benefit from contrastive studies of discourse structure. Cross-linguistic studies of Italian and Danish point to significant typological differences in information packaging in the two languages, especially in their use of deverbalisation. Italian sentences tend to include a larger number of Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs), especially propositions, than Danish. A higher percentage of these is rhetorically backgrounded by means of non-finite and nominalised predicates. Danish text structure, on the other hand, is more informationally linear and characterised by a higher number of finite verbs and topic shifts. These typological differences are transferred into three simple translation rules concerning 1) the number of EDUs, 2) the rhetorical structure, and 3) the textualisation of rhetorical satellites.	en_US
dc.format.extent	10	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.subject.other	Discourse structure	en_US
dc.subject.other	Information packaging	en_US
dc.subject.other	Textualisation	en_US
dc.subject.other	Deverbalisation	en_US
dc.subject.other	Translation strategies	en_US
dc.title	What Can Contrastive Linguistics Tell Us about Translating Discourse Structure?	en_US
dc.type	cp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt12mar01 lbjl	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Internationale Sprogstudier og Vidensteknologi (	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	ISV(	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics(	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	ISV(	en_US
dc.description.notes	Paper presented at Pre-conference Workshop GSCL 2011: Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies, Machine Translation – What can we Learn from Each Other?, Hamburg, Germany	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656316488	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Hamburg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2011	en_US