Search results for "phraseology"
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Keywords and lexical bundles within English pharmaceutical discourse: A corpus-driven description
2015
Abstract Little attention has been paid so far to keywords and lexical bundles used in the English language typical of the pharmaceutical field. Conducted from a register-perspective (Biber & Conrad, 2009), this exploratory and descriptive research is intended to fill in the gap in corpus linguistics studies on phraseology and register variation within written English pharmaceutical discourse. More specifically, this empirical study presents a corpus-driven description of the use and functions of keywords (top-50 by keyness) complemented by a similar description of lexical bundles (top-50 by frequency) used across samples of patient information leaflets, summaries of product characteristics…
Is there a formula for formulaic language?
2015
AbstractThis paper focuses on detecting and measuring traces of "formulaic language". For this purpose, we test a number of computational formulae that quantify the degree to which a text type incorporates inflexible sequences of words. We assess these candidate indices using a number of reference corpora representing a wide variety of text types, both routine and creative. We adopt the concept of "phrase-frame" proposed by Fletcher (2002–2007) as a means of exploring phraseological pattern variability. To date, there have been few studies explicitly addressing this issue, with the exception of Roemer (2010). We examine ten productivity indices, including Roemer's VPR, the Herfindahl-Hirsch…
Register Variation Across English Pharmaceutical Texts: A Corpus-driven Study of Keywords, Lexical Bundles and Phrase Frames in Patient Information L…
2013
Abstract This study constitutes an initial step towards filling a gap in corpus linguistics studies of linguistic and phraseological variation across English pharmaceutical texts, in particular in terms of recurrent linguistic patterns. The study conducted from a register- perspective ( Biber & Conrad, 2009 ), which employs both quantitative and qualitative research procedures, aims to provide a corpus-driven description of vocabulary and phraseology, namely key words, lexical bundles, and phrase frames, used in patient information leaflets and summaries of product characteristics (represented by 463 and 146 texts, respectively) written originally in English and collected in two domain-spec…
Kollokationen in Leserbriefen der Wochenzeitschrift Die Zeit
2020
Im Rahmen der Phraseologieforschung haben Kollokationen traditionell nur wenig Beachtung gefunden. Im Gegensatz zu Idiomen sind sie in der Regel semantisch transparent und bereiten daher Fremdsprachenlernern selten rezeptive Schwierigkeiten. Bei der Textproduktion muss jedoch die Problematik der Kollokationen beachtet werden. Aus diesem Grund halten wir Kollokationen für einen wichtigen Bereich der Phraseologie. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird die Aufmerksamkeit auf die syntaktische Struktur, den Gebrauch und die Funktion von Kollokationen in 243 Leserbriefen der Zeitschrift Die Zeit gerichtet. Nach Heranziehung zweier Kollokationswörterbücher sowie einiger anderer Quellen konnten 278 Kollokat…
Traduction et analogie dans le champ franco-roumain
2018
Our research entitled Translation and Analogy in the Franco-Romanian Field is globally carried out within the framework of translation studies, considered as an application area of contemporary linguistic and psychological theories operating with the concepts of analogy, conceptualization and motivation (P Monneret, (2004), D. Hofstadter, E. Sander, (2013).The thesis consists of four parts : the first two, Translation and Analogy, represent a theoretical approach aiming to offer a new perspective on translational thinking from an interdisciplinary point of view, including analogical linguistics, philosophy and cognitive psychology, while the last two, Analogical and Phraseological Aspects i…
Los procesos de derivación locucional en el continuum discursivo de la literatua medieval de castigos
2016
Las características formales y estilísticas del género sapiencial se antojan fundamentales para el estudio histórico de la fraseología. Por su brevedad y concisión, por su capacidad de adaptarse lingu?ísticamente a tradiciones literarias que nacen y se desarrollan en contextos culturales muy diversos, las colecciones de sentencias medievales que tuvieron su eclosión en el siglo XIII y que llegaron hasta el siglo XV como consecuencia de un continuum discursivo, se caracterizaron por manifestar un uso locucional bastante nutrido. Esta investigación tiene como principal objetivo caracterizar todas las locuciones prepositivas cuyo núcleo se vio sometido a un proceso de derivación léxica, lo cua…
La fraseologia com a tret estilístic en novel·les originals en anglés i les seues traduccions al català
2018
This paper is an analysis of the stylistic function of phraseology in three contemporary novels, originally written in English —Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan; The Road, by Cormac McCarthy; and Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie—, and their corresponding translations into Catalan —Amor perdurable, La carretera and Els fills de la mitjanit. Taking into account some theoretical reflections on phraseology and translation, and by comparing the original novels and their translations, in this article we analyze some examples of phraseological units (PUs) that play a significant stylistic role and we also examine the techniques used by professional translators when faced with this sort of PUs. E…
Unités phraséologiques au pays de la traduction: transfert des collocations nomino-adjectivales avec le lexème «femme» dans la traduction de la litté…
2022
The present paper examines the transfer of nomino-adjectival collocations based on the word ‘femme’ (‘woman’) in the literary translation from French into Italian and Polish. The lexical connection analysed in the article can be defined as the habitual juxtaposition of a word with another word (or words) that has a significant frequency in a given language. The research corpus comprises seven Michel Houellebecq’s novels written originally in French and their Italian and Polish versions. The theoretical part of the paper aims to present phraseotranslation and phraseotraductol-ogy, which are the new subbranches in phraseology. Then, the empirical part proposes the analysis of techniques used …
Kulinaria we frazeologii śląskiej
2017
Pożywienie jako jeden z najważniejszych składników egzystencji człowieka, oprócz swej podstawowej funkcji zaspokajania głodu, jest również istotnym elementem kultury oraz struktury semantycznej języka - o czym świadczą liczne językoznawcze opracowania tego wycinka polskiej leksyki. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie i omówienie wybranych śląskich związków frazeologicznych, w których komponentem jest wyraz należący do kategorii kulinariów, rozumianych jako gotowe potrawy, będące wytworem sztuki kulinarnej lub jako wszystko to, co związane jest z przyrządzaniem i gotowaniem potraw. Omawiane frazeologizmy mogą zatem zawierać komponent będący nazwą konkretnej potrawy, jej składników, napojów c…
Korpusavusteinen virheanalyysi tarkkuuden kehityksestä EVK:n taitotasoilla A2–B2
2020
Artikkelissa tarkastellaan kielitaidon taitotasoittaista kehittymistä potentiaalisten esiintymien analyysin (Potential Occasion Analysis, Thewissen, 2015) avulla. Kehittymistä analysoidaan tarkkuuden näkökulmasta, ja sitä mitataan kohdekielen muoto- ja käyttökonventioista poikkeavien muotojen määrällä. Tutkimus on korpuspohjaista virheanalyysia (Corpus-aided Error Analysis, Dagneaux, Dennes & Granger, 1998), ja se perustuu taitotasoilla havaittujen, yhdeksään virheluokkaan sijoittuvien virheiden määrien tilastolliseen testaukseen. Aineistona on Kansainvälinen oppijansuomen korpus(ICLFI). Analyysi osoittaa, että merkittävintä kehitys on tasojen B1 ja B2 välillä; tasojen A2 ja B1 välillä tark…