Pragmatemes – translating utterances related to the communicative situation Cover Image

Traduction des énoncés liés à une situation d’énonciation: les pragmatèmes
Pragmatemes – translating utterances related to the communicative situation

Author(s): Carmen González Martín
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning, Semantics, Pragmatics, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: pragmatemes; compositional semantic; translation; culture;

Summary/Abstract: Greeting someone with a Hello!, or finishing a letter with Sincerely, Yours truly, seems very easy for a native speaker. These expressions, basic in ordinary life communication, entail a lot of constraints noticeable only when we must use them in a foreign language. Although seemingly simple in terms of content, form and context of ordinary life when they are employed, these utterances are very singular. They are ritually emitted in common situations to which they are prototypically associated.

  • Issue Year: 42/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 171-183
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: French
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