Structural effects of English-German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles

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• dc.contributor.author Bisiada, Marioca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-04-14T07:08:54Z
• dc.date.available 2016-04-14T07:08:54Z
• dc.date.issued 2016ca
• dc.description.abstract Studies on a variety of languages have observed a shift away from/nhypotactic, hierarchical structures towards paratactic, incremental structures,/nand have attributed this to language contact with English in translation. This/npaper investigates such a shift towards parataxis as the preferred structure of/nconcessive constructions in German business articles. To this effect, a diachronic/ncorpus method that has been applied to popular science articles in existing/nstudies is adopted and applied to business articles, in an attempt to reproduce/nexisting findings for this genre. This method is complemented by a corpus of/nmanuscripts which allow to control for the effect of editing on the translated/ntexts. Based on the analysis of hypotactic and paratactic translations of English/nconcessive conjunctions between 1982/83 and 2008, I argue that hypotactic/nstructures are indeed used less frequently in translated texts, but that this/ndevelopment is restricted to translated language. In non-translated texts, the/nuse of hypotactic conjunctions has increased. The use of sentence-initial conjunctions,/nhowever, does seem to spread in this genre (as was reported for/npopular science), which may be further evidence for it to be a case of language/nchange through contact in translation.
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• dc.identifier.citation Bisiada M. Structural effects of English-German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles. Text & Talk. 2016; 36(2):133−154. DOI 10.1515/text-2016-0007.ca
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2016-0007
• dc.identifier.issn 1860-7349ca
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26085
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.publisher De Gruyterca
• dc.relation.ispartof Text & Talk. 2016; 36(2):133−154.
• dc.rights ©2016, Mario Bisiada. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons/nAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.ca
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Language contact in translation
• dc.subject.keyword Translation and language change
• dc.subject.keyword Corpus-based translation studies
• dc.subject.keyword Business translation
• dc.subject.keyword Concessive constructions
• dc.title Structural effects of English-German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articlesca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionca