An appraisal theory approach to point of view in Mansfield Park and its translations

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• dc.contributor.author Alsina i Keith, Victòriaca
• dc.contributor.author Espunya, Annaca
• dc.contributor.author Wirf Naro, Mariaca
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-12-14T10:05:25Z
• dc.date.available 2017-12-14T10:05:25Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract In order to achieve the goals of social commentary and moral judgement pursued in her novels, Jane Austen describes and evaluates different aspects of her characters’ personalities: social attitude, intellectual qualities and moral traits (Lodge 1966). Mansfield Park (1814) is one of her novels in which this moral awareness is most acute. In order to construct a community of shared values with her readers, Austen skilfully alternates different points of view as sources of evaluation. We propose an analysis of the first chapter of Mansfield Park that addresses this dialogic dimension by focusing on the resources of engagement, the subsystem of Appraisal Theory with which speakers/writers express their commitment to the truth of a proposition and their willingness to open the negotiation space to other voices (Martin & White 2005: 97). The linguistic subtlety and complexity of Jane Austen’s writing is a challenge to translators, who must try to identify all the concurrent interpretation possibilities and reproduce them in the target language. In this article we compare the English source text with various translations into Spanish, Catalan and German. Our analysis focuses on the lexicogrammatical realisations of engagement such as verba dicendi, epistemic expressions, lexical choices with a distinct attitudinal load, and also on the development of narration – as far as that is possible in a study centering on the first chapter –, since it is often the case that narrator stance is modified as the text unfolds. We discuss fragments of narrator discourse, direct speech and indirect/free indirect speech and consider the advantages of the framework to uncover changes in the evaluative dimension of meaning that affect the readings the translations will afford in their target society, from character building to the articulation of points of view.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research reported in this article has been funded by the Spanish government (MINECO), through project VALTRAD (FFI2013-42751-P).
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• dc.identifier.citation Alsina V, Espunya A, Wirf Naro M. An appraisal theory approach to point of view in Mansfield Park and its translations. International Journal of Literary Linguistics. 2017;6(1):1-28. DOI: 10.15462/ijll.v6i1.103
• dc.identifier.issn 2194-5594
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/33483
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
• dc.relation.ispartof International Journal of Literary Linguistics. 2017;6(1):1-28. DOI: 10.15462/ijll.v6i1.103
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2013-42751-P
• dc.rights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Appraisal theory
• dc.subject.keyword Engagement
• dc.subject.keyword Dialogism
• dc.subject.keyword Verba dicendi
• dc.subject.keyword Epistemic
• dc.subject.keyword Expressions
• dc.subject.keyword Stance
• dc.subject.keyword Narrator discourse
• dc.subject.keyword Direct speech
• dc.subject.keyword Indirect speech
• dc.subject.keyword Free indirect speech
• dc.title An appraisal theory approach to point of view in Mansfield Park and its translationsca
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