Dear relevance listers,
this is to announce the publication of a paper of mine:
Unger, Christoph 2000: 'Properties of procedurally encoded information and
their implications for translation,' in Pilar Navarro Errasti, Rosa Lorés
Sanz, Silvia Murillo Ornat, Carmina Buesa Gómez (eds) _Transcultural
Communication: Pragmalinguistic Aspects_. Zaragoza: ANUBAR ediciones. pp
139-149.
Abstract:
This paper outlines some results of research on markers encoding procedural
information and their implications for translation theory and practice.
These markers encode constraints on the inferential process of utterance
interpretation rather than conveying conceptual information. This requires
translation strategies different from those applicable for linguistic
markers conveying conceptual information. These strategies must be based on
an understanding of the way in which a given marker in a given utterance
exploits the inferential comprehension process. A discussion of various
discourse effects caused by the use or absence of connectives in
translations of texts from various languages into English illustrates this
point.
Key words: Relevance Theory, communication, procedurally encoded
information, discourse connectives, coherence, translation.
I don't have offprints, but I can send electronic files to interested
people. By the way, the volume contains several other papers on relevance
theory as well. I trust that the authors 'advertise' their papers likewise
on this list.
Best,
Christoph
Christoph Unger
Mozartstr. 26
D-35625 Huettenberg
Germany
Phone: (49) 6403 73782
Fax (and office phone): (49) 6403 78066
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