Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation

ISBN-13: 9781906540661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 148 str.

Mairi McLaughlin

Opis

It is widely held that the large-scale translation of international news from English will lead to changes in French syntax. This book puts this assumption to test using fieldwork carried out in an international news agency and a corpus of translated news agency dispatches.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Research Context and Methodology 2. The Adjective 3. The Passive 4. The Verbal -ant Forms 5. Findings and Implications 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Mairi MaLaughlin