The marked word order as a syntactic means of emphatic expression in chosen literary samples
The marked word order as a syntactic means of emphatic expression in chosen literary samples
Author(s): Jana Richterová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: word order; emphatic expression; thematic variations; dynamic equivalence; cline of similarity
Summary/Abstract: The word order as an important carrier of sentence dynamism has a substantial impact on the overall impression and effect a text will make on the addressee. With English and Czech, representing typologically different languages, the Czech translation of the English sentences with marked word order, i.e. such structures that serve the emphatic and expressive functions of the language, represents a demanding and challenging phenomenon. The focus of this paper is on the English literary texts whose Czech translations have been published, more specifi cally on two books by the same author, yet translated into Czech by different translators, as well as three versions of translation of the same English novel, which were carried out within the spell of fi fty years.
Book: Communication across genres and discourses sixth Brno conference on linguistics studies in English
- Page Range: 123-136
- Page Count: 14
- Publication Year: 2015
- Language: English
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