Monika Doherty – författare

This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences.Through extensive analysis of examples in German and English, the author demonstrates how analogous options of sentence structure must be surrendered in order to achieve felicitous translations. Two major aspects that determine the appropriateness of language use are examined: language processing and discourse-dependency. Essential reading for translation scholars and linguists involved in the comparative study of English and German, this book will also be of interest to scholars of psycholinguistics and cognitive science, as well as translators and linguists more generally.

This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences.Through extensive analysis of examples in German and English, the author demonstrates how analogous options of sentence structure must be surrendered in order to achieve felicitous translations. Two major aspects that determine the appropriateness of language use are examined: language processing and discourse-dependency. Essential reading for translation scholars and linguists involved in the comparative study of English and German, this book will also be of interest to scholars of psycholinguistics and cognitive science, as well as translators and linguists more generally.

Dass dieselbe Information innerhalb verschiedensprachiger Verbalisierungen an unterschiedlichen Stellen in unterschiedlichen Formen auftreten kann, ist eine Binsenweisheit – welchen Bedingungen diese unterschiedliche Informationsverteilung unterliegt, ist jedoch eine Fragestellung, zu der es bisher in der einschlägigen Fachliteratur nur zum Teil genauere Vorstellungen gibt. Die Lückenhaftigkeit der Annahmen macht sich besonders gravierend in der Wissenschaft vom Übersetzen bemerkbar, in der es aus linguistischer Sicht primär um die Sprachspezifik von Informationsverteilung geht. Der vorliegende Band bringt entsprechende übersetzungswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und einschlägige linguistische Annahmen zusammen, um sie für die Interessierten beider Disziplinen wechselweise transparent zu machen.