Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French

Beeching, Kate

Abstract

Identifying the meanings and functions of pragmatic markers such as well, you know, I mean and sort of has posed a considerable challenge for linguists in semantics and pragmatics, particularly those interested in semantic change and pragmaticalisation (see Fischer (ed.), 2006; Hansen and Rossari, 2005; Hansen, 2008). The potential of translation corpora has been recognised as a means of exploring their context-bound and multifunctional nature (Aijmer et al., 2006; Beeching, 2014; Aijmer, 2015) and their historical evolution (Beeching, 2011, 2013). The current paper pursues these debates, drawing on a parallel corpus investigation of translations of sort of by way of a case-study.

• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 6, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 85-98
• Book Title: Linguistique et Traductologie: les enjeux d'une relation complexe
• ISBN: 9782848322445
• Keywords: French, translation, pragmatic markers, semantic change
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/916799
• Publisher URL: http://apu.univ-artois.fr/Collections/Traductologie/Linguistique-et-traductologie-les-enjeux-d-une-relation-complexe
• Contract Date: Oct 6, 2016