Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26931
Publication type: Book part
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? : an empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft sentences
Authors: Garassino, Davide
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1075/la.273.09gar
10.21256/zhaw-26931
Published in: When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure
Editors of the parent work: Garassino, Davide
Jacob, Daniel
Page(s): 271
Pages to: 304
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher / Ed. Institution: John Benjamins
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Amsterdam
ISBN: 978-90-272-1080-7
978-90-272-5815-1
Language: English
Subjects: Pragmatics; Translation; Corpus linguistics; Information structure,; Cleft sentence
Subject (DDC): 401.4: Terminology, discourse analysis, pragmatics
418.02: Translating and interpreting
Abstract: In this paper, we pursue two main (interconnected) goals, relying on a comparable and parallel corpus of French and Italian cleft sentences. First, we assess the most typical formal and functional properties of clefts in these languages, while also considering variation due to the different types of data. Second, we verify the presence of interference in the translation of clefts from French into Italian. Translators’ choices mostly align with information-structural patterns found in original Italian texts, but word-for-word translation styles can increase the frequency of less-common cleft types in Italian, such as Broad Focus and Information Focus clefts. However, odd or infelicitous pragmatic effects arise only in very few cases.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26931
Fulltext version: Accepted version
License (according to publishing contract): Licence according to publishing contract
Restricted until: 2023-02-22
Departement: Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit: Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED)
Appears in collections:Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Garassino, D. (2022). Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? : an empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft sentences. In D. Garassino & D. Jacob (Eds.), When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure (pp. 271–304). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.09gar
Garassino, D. (2022) ‘Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? : an empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft sentences’, in D. Garassino and D. Jacob (eds) When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 271–304. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.09gar.
D. Garassino, “Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? : an empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft sentences,” in When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, D. Garassino and D. Jacob, Eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022, pp. 271–304. doi: 10.1075/la.273.09gar.
GARASSINO, Davide, 2022. Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? : an empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft sentences. In: Davide GARASSINO und Daniel JACOB (Hrsg.), When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. S. 271–304. ISBN 978-90-272-1080-7
Garassino, Davide. 2022. “Translation as a Source of Pragmatic Interference? : An Empirical Investigation of French and Italian Cleft Sentences.” In When Data Challenges Theory : Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in Information Structure, edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob, 271–304. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.09gar.
Garassino, Davide. “Translation as a Source of Pragmatic Interference? : An Empirical Investigation of French and Italian Cleft Sentences.” When Data Challenges Theory : Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in Information Structure, edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob, John Benjamins, 2022, pp. 271–304, https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.09gar.


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