English it-clefts with Focused Subject from an FSP Perspective and their Czech Translation Equivalents

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3rKEvY1100" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3rKEvY1100</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2017.3" target="_blank" >10.14712/24646830.2017.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

English it-clefts with Focused Subject from an FSP Perspective and their Czech Translation Equivalents

Original language description

The paper offers a brief survey of relevant theory on English it-clefts, with an emphasis on information structure. In the practical part, it compares it-clefts with focused subject in original English written texts and their Czech translation counterparts, based on a sample research in the parallel multilingual corpus InterCorp. Due to the different means of expressing FSP in the two languages, Czech naturally uses other ways to convey the desired meaning apart from the cleft construction, such as word-order, focalizing particles, and other devices. To get a better idea about the extent to which the translation may be influenced by the surface structure of the original, another additional sample research was carried out using the same queries to find English translations containing it-clefts and their original Czech source sentences. The preliminary research suggests that at least in the chosen area, the source language does not seem to significantly interfere in the surface structure of the resultant translation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica

ISSN

0567-8269

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

39-49

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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