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    • Spatial deictics in translation

      Available online: 17 May 2019
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      Recent research on deictic elements has made extensive use of translation corpora to demonstrate that asymmetries between translational paradigms signal subtle contrasts from a systemic and pragmatic perspective. The purpose of the present study is to identify translation correspondences of the English spatial demonstrative in Lithuanian and to discuss the contrastive features within the analytical framework of translational explicitation and implicitation. The results indicate that in the prototypical situational usage there is a high degree of correspondence between and its Lithuanian translation, while textual uses demonstrate low formal equivalence. A tendency to implicitate stems from the null subject construction and object ellipsis in Lithuanian and is also a result of the availability of facultative deictic words in Lithuanian. The apparent systemic difference between the deictic systems of English and Lithuanian indicates a tendency towards optional implicitation and stylistic variation in literary translation.

    • Phraseology in teenage language in Spanish, English and Norwegian

      Available online: 15 April 2019
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      A set of phraseological units that convey disagreement in Spanish, English and Norwegian teenage language are observed from three perspectives in this paper: the phraseological, the pragmatic-discursive and the contrastive perspective. The underlying assumption of the analysis is that the expression of disagreement in these terms among young people takes on certain pragmatic nuances. The Madrid Oral Corpus of Teenage Talk (COLAm), the COLT-corpus (Corpus of London Teenage Talk) and the UNO-corpus of Young Norwegian speakers (Ungdomsspråk i Norden, Oslo) enable a comparison of the use of these phraseological units expressing disagreement among teenagers across these three languages.

    • Domain adverbials in the news

      Available online: 06 February 2019
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      This article examines the functional category of domain adverbials (DAs), which arose fairly recently in the European languages and is claimed to occur frequently in the written press. In order to better understand this category, we investigate the form, use and meaning of DAs in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish and highlight important intra- and cross-linguistic differences by means of a qualitative and quantitative empirical study based on a corpus of journalistic texts drawn from online daily newspapers. Our results show that cross-linguistically DAs are mainly realized as adverbs formed through a standard word-formation rule. Our results also point to important cross-linguistic differences in the frequency and types of domain adverbs used in the five languages. We explain these differences by taking into account grammatical, sociolinguistic and discourse-related parameters.

    • On the productivity of the Italian suffix and the English

      Author(s): Elisa Mattiello
      Available online: 14 January 2019
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      This study compares the Italian suffix with its English counterpart in terms of productivity. While in English is often used to designate a person who devotes himself to some science or branch of knowledge (), or refers to an adherent of some creed, doctrine, or art (), Italian has extended its use to new meanings (e.g. supporter of a politician, an artist, etc.), and possible bases, from roots to phrases. Moreover, has also extended its applicability to recent loan words and abbreviations, thus becoming more frequent than and often corresponding to the suffix (e.g. vs. ) or nominal compounds (e.g. vs. ) in the formation of agent nouns. The present contrastive (corpus-based and dictionary-based) analyses confirm that is more productive than in terms of possible bases and varied meanings, which have entered the Italian lexicon and are available for the formation of neologisms.

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