What English Translation Equivalents Can Reveal about the Czech ‘Modal’ Particle prý: A Cross-Register Study

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

What English Translation Equivalents Can Reveal about the Czech ‘Modal’ Particle prý: A Cross-Register Study

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This chapter deals with the Czech allegedly modal partical &quot;prý&quot;. According to Czech monolingual dictionaries, prý [allegedly, they say, it is rumoured, X claims] is a polysemic particle with two senses: in the first one, a modal particle with the meaning of uncertainty and doubt which is caused by the fact that the information is only second-hand; in the second meaning, prý introduces somebody else’s direct reported speech. English correspondences of the particle in three registers of the parallel corpus InterCorp (fiction, journalistic texts and spoken language), however, only confirm its function of an evidential; doubt and uncertainty are not inherent to the meaning of prý but may arise in the context through the process of “invited inference” (see e.g. Traugott and Dasher 2002). The default reporting function is always blocked if the addressee of the reporting event is present in the original interchange, i.e. the information is not new. Though this applies to all three registers alike, there is variation when it comes to the predominant type of evidentiality: while in the texts of Fiction the dominant function of prý is quotative, in the other registers the source of the information is left unexpressed in the majority of tokens.

Název v anglickém jazyce

What English Translation Equivalents Can Reveal about the Czech ‘Modal’ Particle prý: A Cross-Register Study

Popis výsledku anglicky

This chapter deals with the Czech allegedly modal partical &quot;prý&quot;. According to Czech monolingual dictionaries, prý [allegedly, they say, it is rumoured, X claims] is a polysemic particle with two senses: in the first one, a modal particle with the meaning of uncertainty and doubt which is caused by the fact that the information is only second-hand; in the second meaning, prý introduces somebody else’s direct reported speech. English correspondences of the particle in three registers of the parallel corpus InterCorp (fiction, journalistic texts and spoken language), however, only confirm its function of an evidential; doubt and uncertainty are not inherent to the meaning of prý but may arise in the context through the process of “invited inference” (see e.g. Traugott and Dasher 2002). The default reporting function is always blocked if the addressee of the reporting event is present in the original interchange, i.e. the information is not new. Though this applies to all three registers alike, there is variation when it comes to the predominant type of evidentiality: while in the texts of Fiction the dominant function of prý is quotative, in the other registers the source of the information is left unexpressed in the majority of tokens.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

ISBN

978-3-319-54554-7

Počet stran výsledku

28

Strana od-do

63-90

Počet stran knihy

233

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Cham

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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