Unique Items and Parallel Corpora: Evidence from Czech

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Result on the web
<a href="https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/clina/issue/view/clina201952/showToc" target="_blank" >https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/clina/issue/view/clina201952/showToc</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14201/clina2019527798" target="_blank" >10.14201/clina2019527798</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Unique Items and Parallel Corpora: Evidence from Czech
Original language description
This study makes a contribution to the discussion of one candidate for a translation universal, i.e. the hypothesis concerning «unique items» (Tirkkonen-Condit 2002, 2004). We address one line of criticism of this hypothesis, namely «problems with defining unique items a priori» (Chesterman 2007, 11). We argue that candidates for «unique items» can be revealed through Johansson’s contrastive method of systematically studying «meaning through translation patterns» in a parallel corpus (Johansson 2007), especially by comparing correspondences of a polyfunctional or vague item in source and target texts. Having previously investigated the correspondences of the Czech polyfunctional particle prý in English (Martinková and Janebová 2017), we now turn to Spanish and compare corresponences of prý in Spanish source and target texts. The paper suggests that an item may be unique in only some of its senses.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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