Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages

Wojciech Lewandowski

doi:10.1075/rcl.14.1.08lew

Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages

Wojciech Lewandowski

Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

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Abstract

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 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
Keywords: motion events, Manner, Polish, intra-typological variation, Path, English, German

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Vol/bind	14
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	185–208
ISSN	1877-9751
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.14.1.08lew
Status	Udgivet - 2016

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