Research Catalog

Title

Contrastive pragmatics and translation : evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German / Svenja Kranich, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Author

Kranich, Svenja

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Details

Description

xiv, 204 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; volume 261

Uniform Title

Pragmatics & beyond new ser., 261.

Subject

• Pragmatics
• Contrastive linguistics
• Translating and interpreting > Social aspects
• English language > Rhetoric
• German language > Rhetoric
• Information theory in translating
• Discourse analysis > Social aspects
• Stil
• Übersetzung
• Pragmatik
• Kontrastive Linguistik
• Deutsch
• Englisch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Acknowledgements p. ix -- 2 List of tables p. xi -- 3 List of figures p. xiii -- 4 Chapter 1. Introduction p. 1 -- 5 Chapter 2. General hypotheses, data and methods p. 17 -- 6 Chapter 3. The five dimensions of English-German communicative contrasts p. 23 -- 7 Chapter 4. Contrastive perspectives on English-German pragmaticand stylistic contrasts p. 29 -- 8 Chapter 5. The impact of English-German pragmatic and stylistic contrastson translations p. 51 -- 9 Chapter 6. English-German contrasts in evaluative practice p. 67 -- 10 Chapter 7. English-German contrasts in epistemic modal marking p. 95 -- 11 Chapter 8. Translations as trigger of linguistic change? Changes in the genreof popular science in English texts, English-German translationsand German originals p. 165 -- 12 Chapter 9. Conclusion and outlook p. 179 -- 13 References p. 191 -- 14 Index p. 203.

ISBN

• 9789027256669
• 9027256667
• 9027267278
• 9789027267276
• 9789027267276 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• ^^2016001810
• 9789027256669

OCLC

• 934885061
• SCSB-10984499

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library