Cross-Linguistic Variation in System and Text

Elke Teich

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9783110896541
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Filología
• Subtopic: Lingüística

The series serves to propagate investigations into language usage, especially with respect to computational support. This includes all forms of text handling activity, not only interlingual translations, but also conversions carried out in response to different communicative tasks. Among the major topics are problems of text transfer and the interplay between human and machine activities.

Table of contents

• 1 Introduction
• 1 Goals
• 2 Motivation
• 3 Methods
• 4 Road map through this book
• 2 State-of-the-art
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Multilingual research: Objectives and methods
• 3 Hawkins’comparative typology of English and German .
• 4 Doherty's research on English-German contrasts in translations
• 5 Baker's universal features of translations
• 6 Contrastive linguistics: Register analysis
• 7 Summary and conclusions
• 3 Theory and model of cross-linguistic variation
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Systemic Functional Linguistics
• 2.1 Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory
• 2.2 Systemic Functional Linguistics: Model
• 3 Model of cross-linguistic variation
• 3.1 Stratification
• 3.2 Rank
• 3.3 Metafunction
• 3.4 Axis
• 3.5 Delicacy
• 3.6 Instantiation
• 4 Summary and envoi
• 4 System: English-German grammatical contrasts and common alities
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The grammar of the clause
• 2.1 Transitivity and voice: Introduction
• 2.2 Mood and modality: Introduction
• 2.3 Theme/Rheme and Given/New: introduction
• 3 Other ranks
• 3.1 The nominal group in English and German
• 3.2 The prepositional phrase in English and German
• 3.3 Other contrastive features: Verbal group and word ranks
• 4 Summary of major contrasts and commonalities
• 5 Text: English-German comparable texts and translations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Hypotheses and their testing
• 2.1 Formulation of hypotheses
• 2.2 Corpus design
• 2.3 Testing of hypotheses
• 2.4 Tools and techniques
• 3 Analyses and interpretation of hypotheses
• 3.1 Basic descriptive statistics
• 3.2 Linguistic annotation and querying
• 3.3 Results
• 3.4 Contrastive register analysis (multilingually comparable texts)
• 3.5 Comparison of translations and comparable texts (monolingually comparable texts)
• 3.6 Translation analysis (parallel texts)
• 3.7 Interpretation of results
• 4 Summary and conclusions
• 6 Summary and conclusions
• 1 Summary: Cross-linguistic variation in multilingual texts
• 2 Assessment of the methodology
• 3 Envoi: Other contexts of application; issues for future research
• Appendix A: Text sources
• Appendix B: Statistical table
• Appendix C: Analysis results in tabular form
• Notes
• References
• Subject Index
• Author Index