Contrastive pragmatics and translation : evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German / Svenja Kranich, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit�at.

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Intro -- Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 General description of the study and its central aims -- 1.2 Definitions of key terms -- 1.2.1 Contrastive pragmatics -- 1.2.2 Covert and overt translation -- 1.2.3 Translation 'universals' -- 1.2.4 Subjectivity and addressee-orientation -- 1.3 Contrastive studies of communication styles and cultural stereotyping -- 1.4 Organization of the study -- Chapter 2. General hypotheses, data and methods -- 2.1 General hypotheses -- 2.2 Methods and data -- Chapter 3. The five dimensions of English-German communicative contrasts -- Chapter 4. Contrastive perspectives on English-German pragmatic and stylistic contrasts -- 4.1 English-German contrasts in academic discourse and popular science -- 4.1.1 Text organization and linearity of academic articles -- 4.1.2 Hedging and impersonal expressions in peer-addressed and popular scientific writing -- 4.1.3 Popular science: An overview -- 4.1.4 Deictic elements in popular science -- 4.1.5 Connectivity in popular science -- 4.2 English-German contrasts in business communication -- 4.2.1 General findings -- 4.2.2 Text organization and linearity -- 4.2.3 Modality -- 4.2.4 Person deixis -- 4.3 English-German contrasts in other genres and cross-genre studies -- 4.4 Summary of previous results on English-German communicative contrasts -- Chapter 5. The impact of English-German pragmatic and stylistic contrasts on translations -- 5.1 Translations of popular science -- 5.1.1 General findings -- 5.1.2 Person deixis -- 5.1.3 Connectivity -- 5.2 Translations of business communication -- 5.2.1 General findings -- 5.2.2 Modality -- 5.2.3 Person deixis -- 5.2.4 Connectivity -- 5.2.5 Evaluative lexis.

5.2.6 Explicitness versus implicitness -- 5.3 Translations of other genres -- 5.3.1 Connectivity -- 5.3.2 Explicitness versus implicitness -- 5.3.3 Verbal routines vs. ad-hoc formulation -- 5.4 Summary of previous results on English-German contrasts in translation -- Chapter 6. English-German contrasts in evaluative practice -- 6.1 Why study evaluation -- 6.2 Hypotheses -- 6.3 Expressions of evaluation in discourse -- 6.4 Adjectives as means of expressing evaluation -- 6.5 Methods -- 6.6 Contrastive findings -- 6.7 Translation analysis -- 6.8 Summary -- Chapter 7. English-German contrasts in epistemic modal marking -- 7.1 Why study epistemic modality -- 7.2 Hypotheses -- 7.3 Epistemic modality in letters to shareholders -- 7.3.1 Previous findings -- 7.3.2 Methods -- 7.3.3 General function of epistemic modal marking in the genre -- 7.3.4 Contrastive findings -- 7.3.4.1 General contrasts in frequency -- 7.3.4.2 Contrasts in preferred lexico-grammatical categories -- 7.3.4.3 Contrasts in the use of modalized statements in different domains of reference -- 7.3.4.4 Contrasts in the use of markers of high and low probability -- 7.3.4.5 Summary -- 7.3.5 Translation analysis -- 7.3.5.1 General contrasts in frequency -- 7.3.5.2 Preferred lexico-grammatical categories in translations -- 7.3.5.3 Use of modalized statements in different domains of reference -- 7.3.5.4 Summary -- 7.4 Epistemic modality in popular science -- 7.4.1 Previous findings -- 7.4.2 Methods -- 7.4.3 General function in the genre -- 7.4.4 Contrastive findings -- 7.4.4.1 General contrasts in frequency -- 7.4.4.2 Contrasts in preferred lexico-grammatical categories -- 7.4.4.3 Contrasts in the use of markers of high and low probability -- 7.4.4.4 Summary -- 7.4.5 Translation analysis -- 7.4.5.1 General differences in frequency.

7.4.5.2 Preferred lexico-grammatical categories in translations -- 7.4.5.3 Use of markers of high and low probability in translations -- 7.5 A cross-genre comparison of epistemic modality in two genres -- 7.6 Summary -- Chapter 8. Translations as trigger of linguistic change? Changes in the genre of popular science in English texts, English-German translations and German originals -- 8.1 Diachronic change in English popular scientific articles -- 8.2 Diachronic change in English-German translations of popular scientific articles and in German originals -- 8.2.1 The case of we� wir -- 8.2.2 The case of And� Und -- 8.2.3 The case of But� Aber� Doch -- 8.2.4 The case of epistemic modal markers -- 8.3 Discussion of the reasons for the diachronic changes observed -- 8.4 Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 9. Conclusion and outlook -- 9.1 Summary -- 9.2 Evaluation of the general hypotheses -- 9.3 Outlook -- Index.

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