Behrens, Bergljot: Cohesive ties in translation. A contrastive study of the Norwegian connective DERMED. Languages in Contrast : International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics 2005 ;Volum 5.(1) s. 3-32

Type of publication:

article

Type of analysis:

mixed

Language:

English

Authors from TREC:

Behrens, Bergljot

Data collection (type of instrument only):

Corpora

Translations

Abstract in English:

The paper discusses discourse connectives in a contrastive, translational perspective. It analyzes the meanig of the discourse connective DERMED, in particular in view ofits translations into English. The connectie is aso seen to appear in Norwegian translations from English, even when there is no connective in the source. The data indicates an over-normalization- as defined by Elke Teich - of the use of discourse connectives in Norwegian translation from English..

Other data collection:

based on the English-Norwegan parallel corpus at the University of Oslo

Year:

Thursday, September 1, 2005

English keywords:

discourse connectives

English-Norwegian translation

normalization