Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages
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Wojciech Lewandowski [1] ; Jaume Mateu [2]
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[1] University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
Dinamarca
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[2] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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- Localización: Review of cognitive linguistics, ISSN 1877-9751, Vol. 14, Nº. 1 (January 2016), 2016, págs. 185-208
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
We analyze the expression of motion in translations of Tolkien’s The Hobbit into Polish and German within the framework of Talmy’s (1991, 2000) typology of macro-events and Slobin’s (1991, 1996) “Thinking for speaking” hypothesis.
We show that although both languages pertain to the satellite-framed typological group, Polish provides less diversified Manner and Path descriptions than German, which exploits the satellite-framed lexicalization pattern by far more productively. We relate these contrasts in the rhetorical style to the particular morpho-syntactic and semantic characteristics of the languages under discussion.
