Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation
This paper discusses information structure-based strategies that could be used in translating from English to Spanish. It is widely observed that many problems arise in translation when establishing the theme/topic and providing the focus content in the target language, given the grammatical instrum...
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| author | Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández |
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| description | This paper discusses information structure-based strategies that could be used in translating from English to Spanish. It is widely observed that many problems arise in translation when establishing the theme/topic and providing the focus content in the target language, given the grammatical instruments available in the source language. It is extremely important to use similar discourse mechanisms to present the same message in exactly the same terms from an information-structure point of view. This means that the syntactic configuration may be different in the source and target texts. I focus on three information structure phenomena, namely Passive, Topic Fronting and Negative Preposing in the two languages, to analyse the preservation of the discourse flow in various translations for the optimal use of the relevant constructions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f0faa8746364eb596cbe9b8a30b551f2022-12-21T17:23:27ZengUniversidad de La RiojaJournal of English Studies1576-63571695-43002020-12-011808310710.18172/jes.41953484Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translationÁngel L. Jiménez-Fernández0Universidad de SevillaThis paper discusses information structure-based strategies that could be used in translating from English to Spanish. It is widely observed that many problems arise in translation when establishing the theme/topic and providing the focus content in the target language, given the grammatical instruments available in the source language. It is extremely important to use similar discourse mechanisms to present the same message in exactly the same terms from an information-structure point of view. This means that the syntactic configuration may be different in the source and target texts. I focus on three information structure phenomena, namely Passive, Topic Fronting and Negative Preposing in the two languages, to analyse the preservation of the discourse flow in various translations for the optimal use of the relevant constructions.https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/jes/article/view/4195information structuretranslation strategiespassivetopicfocusenglish/spanish |
| spellingShingle | Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation Journal of English Studies information structure translation strategies passive topic focus english/spanish |
| title | Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation |
| title_full | Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation |
| title_fullStr | Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation |
| title_short | Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation |
| title_sort | information structure strategies in english spanish translation |
| topic | information structure translation strategies passive topic focus english/spanish |
| url | https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/jes/article/view/4195 |
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