Using multilingual parallel corpora for contrastive studies and translation studies : A case study of the verbs of sitting, standing, and lying

• From the combined perspectives of contrastive studies and of translation studies, the paper presents a case study of the Swedish postural verbs referring to sitting standing and lying and their correspondents in English based on data from the English Swedish Parallel Corpus (ESPC). A comparison of English original and translated texts shows clear signs of “translationese” or crosslinguistic influence due to the much more frequent use of the postural verbs in Swedish. This study is complemented with a semantically more fine-grained analysis of one of the postural verbs STAND based on the ESPC and The Multilingual Parallel corpus which contains data also of the translations of Swedish stå ‘stand’ into German, French and Finnish.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

corpus linguistics - contrastive studies - lexical semantics

Linguistic subjects

Lingvistikämnen

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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