Cross-Linguistic Variation in System and Text : : A Methodology for the Investigation of Translations and Comparable Texts / / Elke Teich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Teich, Elke,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP] , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Other title: i-iv --; Preface --; Contents --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. State-of-the-art --; Chapter 3. Theory and model of cross-linguistic variation --; Chapter 4. System: English-German grammatical contrasts and commonalities --; Chapter 5. Text: English-German comparable texts and translations --; Chapter 6. Summary and conclusions --; Appendix A: Text sources --; Appendix Β: Statistical table --; Appendix C: Analysis results in tabular form --; Notes --; References --; Subject Index --; Author Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110896541; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110305616
• ISSN: 1861-4272
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110896541
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elke Teich.

The intuition that translations are somehow different from texts that are not translations has been around for many years, but most of the common linguistic frameworks are not comprehensive enough to account for the wealth and complexity of linguistic phenomena that make a translation a special kind of text. The present book provides a novel methodology for investigating the specific linguistic properties of translations. As this methodology is both corpus-based and driven by a functional theory of language, it is powerful enough to account for the multi-dimensional nature of cross-linguistic variation in translations and cross-lingually comparable texts.