Towards an Empirical Verification of the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis

The Gravitational Pull Hypothesis is an attempt to provide a cognitive account for features of translated language. This book presents a number of studies aiming to test that hypothesis on several linguistic items. The results shed light not only on the hypothesis itself but also on the mixed-methods approach adopted in the book.

Autorentext

Josep Marco is Professor of literary translation and translation studies at Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, Spain). His main research areas are the translation of style, corpus-based translation studies, literary translator training and translations into Catalan in the inter-war period. He also translates literature from English into Catalan and Spanish.

Isabel Tello teaches in the areas of translation studies and English as a Foreign Language in the Department of English and German, Universitat de València (Spain). Her research interests also include literary translation, the translation of linguistic variation and corpus-based translation studies.

Inhalt

Table of Contents - List of abbreviations - Introduction - The gravitational pull hypothesis: status and prospects - Methodology - Passive constructions in Spanish texts translated from English, German and French - The translation of formal and semantic diminutives into Catalan - The imperfective/perfective aspect in Catalan original literary texts and texts translated from English, German and French - Light Verb Constructions and alternative full verbs in Catalan and Spanish nontranslated and translated literary texts - Adjective position in Catalan as a testing ground for the Gravitational Pull and Machine-Translationese Hypotheses Conclusions