Theme in English and German: A Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of Clause Openings in Original and Translated Texts - Couverture rigide

Freiwald, Jonas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9027214077 ISBN 13 : 9789027214072

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2023

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9027214077
• ISBN 13: 9789027214072
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 311
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible