Cohesive explicitness and explicitation in an English-German translation corpus

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Abstract
<jats:p>Explicitness or implicitness as assumed properties of translated texts and other texts in multilingual communication have for some time been the object of speculation and, at a later stage, of more systematic research in linguistics and translation studies. This paper undertakes an investigation of explicitness/implicitness and related phenomena of translated texts on the level of cohesion. A corpus-based research architecture, embedded in an empirical research methodology, will be outlined, and first results and possible explanations will be discussed. The paper starts with a terminological clarification of the concepts of ‘explicitness’ and ‘explicitation’ in terms of dependent variables to be investigated. The two terms — and their usage by other scholars — will be discussed. An electronic corpus will then be described which provides the empirical data and techniques for information extraction. For the investigation carried out using our corpus, indicators will then be derived on the basis of which operationalizations and hypotheses can be formulated for patterns of explicitation occurring between source and target texts. Some initial results relating to cohesive explicitness and explicitation in the data will be presented and discussed, with particular attention being paid to the areas of ‘reference’, ‘substitution‘, ‘ellipsis’, ‘conjunction’, and ‘lexical cohesion’. First attempts will also be made at explaining the findings.</jats:p>
Autoren
  • Silvia Hansen-Schirra
  • Stella Neumann
  • Erich Steiner
DOI
10.1075/lic.7.2.09han
eISSN
1569-9897
ISSN
1387-6759
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
2
Zeitschrift
Languages in Contrast
Sprache
en
Online publication date
2007
Paginierung
241 - 265
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2007
Status
Published
Herausgeber
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.7.2.09han
Datum der Datenerfassung
2020
Titel
Cohesive explicitness and explicitation in an English-German translation corpus
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
7

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Autoren
  • Silvia Hansen-Schirra
  • Stella Neumann
  • Erich Steiner
DOI
10.1075/lic.7.2.09han
eISSN
1569-9897
ISSN
1387-6759
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
2
Zeitschrift
Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics
Schlüsselwörter
  • English language (Modern)
  • semantics
  • cohesion
  • explicitness
  • German language (New High)
Sprache
English
Paginierung
241 - 265
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2007
Herausgeber
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Titel
Cohesive Explicitness and Explicitation in an English-German Translation Corpus
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
7

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