Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages

Wojciech Lewandowski; Jaume Mateu

doi:10.1075/rcl.14.1.08lew

Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages

Wojciech Lewandowski, Jaume Mateu

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Abstract

© 2016 John Benjamins Publishing Company. We analyze the expression of motion in translations of Tolkien's The Hobbit into Polish and German within the framework of Talmy's (1991, 2000) typology of macro-events and Slobin's (1991, 1996) "Thinking for speaking" hypothesis. We show that although both languages pertain to the satellite-framed typological group, Polish provides less diversified Manner and Path descriptions than German, which exploits the satellite-framed lexicalization pattern by far more productively. We relate these contrasts in the rhetorical style to the particular morpho-syntactic and semantic characteristics of the languages under discussion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-208
Journal	Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.14.1.08lew
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016

Keywords

English
German
intra-typological variation
Manner
Motion events
Path
Polish

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