The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences. Through extensive analysis of examples in German and English, the author demonstrates how analogous options of sentence structure must be surrendered in order to achieve felicitous translations.

Two major aspects that determine the appropriateness of language use are examined: language processing and discourse-dependency.

Essential reading for translation scholars and linguists involved in the comparative study of English and German, this book will also be of interest to scholars of psycholinguistics and cognitive science, as well as translators and linguists more generally.

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Pages:208 pages
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date:02/09/2003
Category:
- Historical & comparative linguistics
- Semantics
ISBN:9781134460571

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