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Language Processing in Discourse

What do we choose to begin a sentence? How do we highlight the most

important information in a sentence?

This book argues that language systems determine language use to a

greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the

typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general

aspects of our stylistic preferences.

Through extensive analysis of examples in German and English, the

author demonstrates how analogous options of sentence structure must be

surrendered in order to achieve felicitous translations. Two major aspects

that determine the appropriateness of language use are examined: language

processing and discourse-dependency.

The most important area where the typological characteristics of a

language interact with language processing, Doherty argues, is the area of

information structure, that is, the way in which thoughts are packaged

into sentence structures to express informational progress. Investigating

examples such as the different verb positions of German and English, she

shows how such variances have far-reaching repercussions in terms of word

order, case frame and structural explicitness.

Essential reading for translation scholars and linguists involved in the

comparative study of English and German, this book will also be of interest

to scholars of psycholinguistics and cognitive science, as well as translators

and linguists more generally.

Monika Doherty began her career with the study of English, Russian and

General Linguistics in Berlin (PhD in 1969, Professor in 1981). She

concentrated on semantics, later pragmatics, and translation. In 1990 she

was appointed Professor for Translation Theory. Two major publications

contributed to her success with a wider readership: Übersetzen (2nd edn

1997) and Das grammatische Varieté (4th edn 1998).

Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics

Series editors: Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera

1. Negative Contexts

Collocation, polarity and multiple negation

Ton van der Wouden

2. When-clauses and Temporal Structure

Renaat Declerck

3. On the Meaning of Topic and Focus

The 59th Street Bridge accent

Daniel Büring

4. Aspectual Grammar and Past-time Reference

Laura A. Michaelis

5. The Grammar of Irish English

Language in Hibernian-style

Markku Filppula

6. Intensifiers in English and German

Peter Siemund

7. Stretched Verb Constructions in English

David Allerton

8. Negation in Non-standard British English

Gaps, regularizations and asymmetries

Lieselotte Anderwald

9. Language Processing in Discourse

A key to felicitous translation

Monika Doherty

Language Processing in

Discourse

A key to felicitous translation

Monika Doherty

London and New York

First published 2002

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now

known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in

any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing

from the publishers.

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ISBN 0-203-21693-8 Master e-book ISBN

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(Print Edition)

ISBN 0-415-28189–X

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