Writing aout the dead: a corpus-based study on how to refer to the deceased in English vs. French obituaries and its consequences for translation
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2014
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comparative grammar referring expressions corpus-based translation studies Corpus LinguisticsSujets proches
Newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.--Obituaries Frenchmen (French people) Cadavers Remains, Human Corpses Human remains DeceasedCiter ce document
Cindy Lefebvre-Scodeller, « Writing aout the dead: a corpus-based study on how to refer to the deceased in English vs. French obituaries and its consequences for translation », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.cvrir2
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The aim of this article is to compare the use of referring expressions to the deceased in obituaries written in English and in French, with an aim to define implications for translation. While both grammatical systems provide speakers with similar expressions (First Name + Family Name, Family Name, Title + Name, First Name, Nickname, Lexical Descriptions with or without Names, Pronominal Forms), these do not show the same distribution and frequency. Through the study of Necrocorpus, a corpus of recent obituaries written in English and French, inter-language differences are uncovered and used for a discussion on the utilization of inter-language differences for translation training and quality assessment.