by
House, Juliane.
Call Number
306.446 22
Publication Date
2004
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Annotation In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers by members of the German Science Foundation's research center on multilingualism at Hamburg University and by international experts, offering an overview of the most important research fields in multilingual communication. The book is divided into four sections dealing with interpreting and translation, code-switching in various institutional contexts, two important strands of multilingual communication: rapport and politeness, and contrastive studies of Japanese and German grammar and discourse. The editors' preface presents the relevant theoretical and methodological background to the issues discussed in this book and points to useful directions for future research.
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67235.3984
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by
Kranich, Svenja.
Call Number
404.2
Publication Date
2011
Summary
This paper examines previous claims that subject-initial word order in the oral Salish languages is induced via translation from English. The analysis concentrates on new fieldwork data from Nłeʔkepmxcin. By taking prosody as its starting point, this study offers a new look at this issue, and uniquely combines detailed phonetic with syntactic, pragmatic and historical-comparative analysis. Subject-initial forms are, at first glance, at odds with the basic verb-initial structure underlying all 23 Salish languages. However, examination of the deeper prosodic and syntactic properties of subject-initial forms in Salish suggests that they are in fact native forms induced by pragmatic context and not translation effects. The study therefore cautions against reliance on (written) surface word order in translation studies.
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0.0277
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