TY - JOUR
T1 - Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages
AU - Lewandowski, Wojciech
N1 - special issue: Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology
Edited by Ana María Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1075/rcl.14.1.08lew
DO - 10.1075/rcl.14.1.08lew
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1877-9751
VL - 14
SP - 185
EP - 208
JO - Review of Cognitive Linguistics
JF - Review of Cognitive Linguistics
IS - 1
ER -