Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: We analyze the expression of motion in translations of Tolkien’s The Hobbit into Polish and German within the framework of Talmy’s (1991, 2000) typology of macro-events and Slobin’s (1991, 1996) “Thinking for speaking” hypothesis. We show that although both languages pertain to the satellite-framed typological group, Polish provides less diversified Manner and Path descriptions than German, which exploits the satellite lexicalization pattern by far more productively. We relate these contrasts in the rhetorical style to the particular morpho-syntactic and semantic characteristics of the languages under discussion.
Source: Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Authors: Wojciech Lewandowski, Jaume Mateu
Institutions: University of Copenhagen, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2466421985