The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobiographies from the late nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century. Many of the original Welsh texts contain stylistic features which, in a context of intense bilingualism with English, benefit from the deliberate discussion and analysis in this volume. However, the work is intentionally descriptive rather than prescriptive, laying out patterns that are observed in the corpus, and making them available to Welsh writers and translators to adopt if or as required. As similarly the classic work in the field by Vinay and Darbelnet, this book examines its topics through the lens of translation techniques such as transposition, modulation and adaptation.
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This volume invites readers to explore the stylistic resources of Welsh by comparing twentieth and twenty-first century prose in Welsh and in English translation (as well as the reverse direction). This technique brings out numerous linguistic and stylistic devices that reflect the characteristic idiom and expressive spirit of idiomatic Welsh writing.
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Acknowledgements
Rhagair/Preface
Chapter I: Comparative Stylistics and Translation Techniques
Chapter II: Nouns and Pronouns
Chapter III: Prepositions
Chapter IV: Welsh Possessive Constructions
Chapter V: Issues in the Verb Phrase: Tense/Mood/Aspect and Modality
Chapter VI: Phrasal Verbs
Chapter VII: Cael and Get
Chapter VIII: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter IX: Lexical Issues: Word formation and collocations
Chapter X: Welsh Verbless Clauses and Verb-noun Clauses
Chapter XI: Information Structure: Topics and Focus
Bibliography
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Kevin J. Rottet is Associate Professor of French Linguistics and Adjunct in Linguistics at Indiana University, where he teaches courses on language contact, lexicology-lexicography, translation, and the structure of Breton.
Steve Morris is Associate Professor of Welsh at Swansea University where he teaches in the fields of language and applied linguistics. He is a co-investigator on the CorCenCC (Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes – National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh) project.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786832542
Publisert
2018-07-15
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Wales Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Biographical note
The book is most suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students but will also appeal to more general readers interested in either applied linguistics/linguistics and the Welsh language or comparative stylistics and the Welsh language. Its appeal is therefore likely to span both language and literature specialists.