Jul 2026· Across Languages and Cultures· 0 citations· 52 references
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The article reports on a corpus-driven analysis of how Sinclairian extended units of meaning (EUMs) are treated in English into Slovene translation. The main goal of the underlying research was to test to what extent the EUM is perceived as the proper (extended) unit of translation as proposed by Zethsen (2021). The point of departure was a list of high-frequency EUMs that have previously been identified in a monolingual English corpus. Subsequently, these EUMs were checked in the OpenSubtitles 2018 parallel English-Slovene corpus. Although the overall number of EUMs was lower than expected, the results indicate that the rate of successful translation of EUMs in real-life circumstances is in the 30–40% range, while in the remaining majority of translations semantic prosody is either omitted or it undergoes explicitation by means of denotation. This low rate should encourage authors in the field of corpus-based translation studies to spread and raise awareness of semantic prosody. Another implication of the study in the field of higher education of translators is the need to alert translation students to this elusive phenomenon.
This pilot study examines how the English adverb actually is rendered in Slovak translation, drawing on a corpus of literary texts and their translations. As a multifunctional item, actually performs a range of syntactic and pragmatic functions in context, most notably those of emphasizer and disjunct. The analysis draws on three Slovak translations of works by the same English-speaking author. Although each translator worked on a different set of books, the corpus still makes it possible to compare translation strategies within a relatively consistent authorial style and to observe how individual translators deal with the same multifunctional source item. The study combines qualitative functional analysis with quantitative observations in order to identify recurrent Slovak renderings of actually, including lexical substitution, structural reformulation, attenuation, and omission. The findings suggest that translation difficulty arises not from the lack of Slovak expressive resources, but from differences between English and Slovak in the grammatical encoding of discourse-related meaning. In particular, functions expressed in English through sentence adverbials do not always correspond to a single formal category in Slovak, which increases the likelihood of functional shift or translation loss. The study contributes to translation studies and contrastive linguistics by showing how the pragmatic contribution of a frequent multifunctional item may be preserved, reinterpreted, weakened, or omitted in translation, and how these outcomes vary across translators.
Zuzana Knižková· Studies About Languages· 0 citations
The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of secondary predication in Russian and English with an emphasis on the adjectival type and the features of its translation. The aim of the work is to identify similarities and differences in the functioning of secondary subjective predication in the two languages and to identify strategies for its transmission in translation. The methods used are theoretical analysis of linguistic concepts, a comparative approach, and a corpus analysis of parallel texts in D. Setterfield's novel The Thirteenth Tale (353 sentences in English and 307 in Russian). The main results of the study showed that in the English-language corpus, secondary subjective predication is relatively low in the literary text (frequency ~3%). The analysis of translations revealed that in 9 out of 11 cases, the adjectival secondary predication persists without syntactic transformations, being realized in the Russian language mainly through participial and adjectival turns (semi-predication). It is noted that for the Russian language this construction is more natural due to the absence of the need for a verb-a bundle between a noun and an adjective. As a result, it is concluded that the secondary adjectival predication in Russian and English has a similar semantic nature and performs similar syntactic functions. When translating, its preservation, as a rule, does not cause difficulties due to the structural parallels between languages, which confirms the thesis about the fundamental translatability of this phenomenon.
Aleksandr I. Ermakov, Yulia N. Zintsova· LOGOΣFERA. Nizhny Novgorod h...· 0 citations
This article aims to demonstrate that the connotations conveyed by morphological diminutives in Latvian source texts can be rendered into English through a range of various linguistic devices, despite the differences between the two languages. In order to achieve this aim, an overview of the PhD research “Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Rendering Diminutives in English Translations of Latvian Prose” is offered in this article.
The aim of the PhD research was twofold: firstly, to study and contrast Latvian diminutives and their English counterparts in the context of translation studies and, secondly, to develop guidelines for translators enabling them to apply the results of contrastive analysis in the translation skills acquisition and translation process, and for developing similar support tools to overcome challenges caused by language and cultural differences.
In view of the fact that the rendering of meanings and connotations of diminutives constitutes a complex research problem, as the objects involved are varied and multifaceted, and their resolution emerges through a creative interplay among multiple factors, consequently, the study employs a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods and instruments: descriptive analysis of the theoretical literature, contrastive and comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis of the excerpted language material, translation experiment, Think Aloud Protocols and Dialogue Think Aloud Protocols, questionnaires of translation experiment participants and experts of the translation field.
One of the outputs of the PhD research is the first comprehensive contrastive analysis of Latvian morphologically derived diminutives and the corresponding morphological and analytic means used to convey equivalent connotations in English. This analysis integrates data from multiple levels of practice, comparing source texts with translations produced both by students and practising translators. Interpreting these findings within the framework of translation studies enabled the creation of another output of this PhD research – a support tool for translators grounded in findings from analysing the theoretical literature of linguistics and translation studies and actual translation practice. The insight into the three PhD research stages, key findings and results described in this article demonstrate that the connotations implied by Latvian morphological diminutives can be rendered into English by combining various translation solutions and a wide range of linguistic devices, mainly analytical means. The chosen translation solutions and linguistic means depend on the specifics of the literary work to be translated and the context of the diminutive use.
Prefixation is a morphological process which studies how morphemes are affixed in the beginning of their host words for either grammatical functions or for lexical expansion and derivation. This paper investigates aspects of the grammar of prefixation in English and Igbo Languages. It adopts a comparative theoretical framework, so as to identify the morphological similarities and difference in both languages. It also adopts the qualitative design, which gives the description of the data the way they are. The paper adopts both a primary and secondary methods of data collections. The primary data were basically from the native speaker’s competence, the researcher who is a speaker of the Igbo language supplied the necessary data. The secondary data were sourced from textual materials. The analysis shows grammatical and functional similarities and dissimilarities in both languages, as well derivative similarities and dissimilarities in both languages. Prefixes are used in both languages to derive new words, change word classes, but Igbo in additions realise grammatical functions with prefixes. The study of prefixation in both languages greatly reveals common universal principles of human language and at the same time, parametric variations in the languages, showing their uniqueness. The study concludes that prefixation in both languages are morphologically productive, being inflectional in the Igbo language; derivational flexible in both languages, and can as well perform different linguistic functions in both languages. The study notes the selective nature of the paper on instances of prefixation in both languages because of space, and thus, recommends an expanded investigation of the topic; and comparative investigation of other related morphological concepts, such as infixation, interfixation and suffixation in English and Igbo.
Okolo N Patrick, Florence Nne Agwu· World Journal of Advanced Re...· 0 citations
The article is devoted to a comparative study of such interplicate final concepts as PURPOSE, CONDITION, and CONCESSION. The purpose of the work is to identify the features of the representation of the concepts of PURPOSE, CONDITION, and CONCESSION in Russian and Chuvash linguistic worldviews. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the fact that it is the first to identify the dynamics of finality as a cognitive interface between the subject of cognition and objective reality, as a marker structure of the subject’s perception of causal relationships. The article examines speech planning as a dynamic process in which the speaker takes into account internal and external conditions that shape their communicative goals. Since the speaker is not free to choose their utterance, they operate within a field of numerous constraints and consciously construct a path to achieve their goal, resulting in various semantic modifications in their speech. The study found that external and internal conditions determine the speaker’s communicative goals, and if they cannot be achieved, a tactical retreat (concession) occurs. Interplicate concepts of PURPOSE, CONDITION, and CONCESSION are an integral cognitive tool for interacting with the objective world, allowing us to operate not only with actual, but also with potential and alternative possibilities. The forms and types of representatives of these concepts in different linguistic worldviews are historically and culturally conditioned.
L. V. Borisova, Alexey Rafailovich Gubanov, Yuriy Nikolaevich Isaev· Philology. Theory & Prac...· 0 citations
With empirical research on Standard Scottish English showing a bias towards phonology, the aim of the current
study is to contribute to the morpho-syntactic documentation of this variety. Relying on Standard Southern British English for
comparison, we concentrate on four eWAVE features on which the varieties have been noted to diverge: (i)
youse
as
a second person plural pronoun, (ii) extended uses of the progressive, (iii) epistemic
mustn’t
, and (iv)
quotative
like
. We use questionnaire data, where respondents indicate how many speakers in their home country use
a particular feature. Ratings are elicited from 43 English and 61 Scottish participants (mostly university students) for two usage
contexts, (informal) speech and (semi-formal) writing. Our findings corroborate expert ratings in eWAVE and show that the reported
currency of all features is higher in Standard Scottish English, albeit to varying degrees. Our study draws attention to the
complementary potential of questionnaire data in World Englishes research.
Ole Schützler, Lukas Sönning, Fabian Vetter et al.· English World-Wide. A Journa...· 0 citations
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