Research Catalog

Title

Comparative stylistics of French and English : a methodology for translation / Jean-Paul Vinay, Jean Darbelnet ; translated and edited by Juan C. Sager, M.-J. Hamel.

Author

Vinay, Jean-Paul, 1910-

Publication

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Darbelnet, Jean, 1904-1990.

Description

xx, 358 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Benjamins translation library ; v. 11

Uniform Title

Benjamins translation library; v. 11.

Subject

• Contrastive linguistics
• French language > Style
• English language > Style
• French language > Translating into English
• English language > Translating into French
• Linguistique contrastive
• Français (Langue) > Stylistique
• Anglais (Langue) > Stylistique
• Français (Langue) > Traduction en anglais
• Anglais (Langue) > Traduction en français

Note

• Translation of: Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: Introduction -- Motivation -- Basic concepts -- Units -- planes -- A methodology for translation -- Further reading -- Part II: The lexicon -- Concrete and abstract levels of expression -- Semantic values -- Lexical aspects -- The lexicon and memory -- Further reading -- Part III: Structures -- Word classes and accidence -- Transposition -- Stylistic comparison of world classes -- Comparative stylistics of accidence -- Further reading -- Part IV: The message -- The message in communication -- The message and the situation -- Prosody -- Word order and thematic structure -- The articulation of the utterance -- Modulation in the message -- Equivalence and allusion in the message -- Adaptation and metalinguistic information -- Conclusion -- Further reading.

ISBN

• 1556196911 (bound)
• 9781556196911 (bound)
• 155619692X (pbk.)
• 9781556196928 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95038277^

OCLC

• 35933371
• SCSB-11953702

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library