A Multiple-Parallel-Text Approach for Viewpoint Research Across
Languages: The Case of Demonstratives in English and Chinese

C 2018

A Multiple-Parallel-Text Approach for Viewpoint Research Across Languages: The Case of Demonstratives in English and Chinese

LU, Wei-lun, Arie VERHAGEN and I-wen SU

Basic information

Original name

A Multiple-Parallel-Text Approach for Viewpoint Research Across Languages: The Case of Demonstratives in English and Chinese

Authors

LU, Wei-lun, Arie VERHAGEN and I-wen SU

Edition

Oxford, Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics, p. 131-157, 27 pp. 1, 2018

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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URL

Organization unit

Language Centre

ISBN

978-0-19-045774-7

Keywords in English

Demonstratives, parallel texts, translation

Abstract

V originále

As a burgeoning field in cognitive scientific research, Cognitive Poetics has been expanding its scope and methods (cf. Brône 2009; Gavins and Steen 2003; Semino and Culpeper 2002; Stockwell 2002; Tsur 2008). However, so far few attempts have been made to explore the usefulness of parallel texts (or parallel corpora) as a methodology in cognitive poetics for cross-linguistic investigations. We propose to that literary masterpieces that are translated into multiple languages are a fertile testing ground of cognitive poetics. We treat the author and the translators as text producers that intend to tell the same story in their respective languages to their readers; thus we are dealing with two or more usage events with highly similar, if not identical, ideational contents, that may differ in their construal (Langacker 1999), in this case due to differences between the languages involved. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of this methodology, we use the first chapter of Alice in Wonderland and one of its Chinese translations for a parallel study (another translation by Y.R. Chao will be added at a later stage). We focus on demonstrative pronouns, which are fundamental cognitive coordination devices and have attracted much scholarly interest (Ariel 1988; Botley and McEnery 2001; Diessel 2003; Enfield 2003; Glover 2000; Himmelmann 1996; Janssen 1995; Kirsner 1993; Laury 1997; Levinson 2004; Piwek et al. 2007; Strauss 2002; Vries 1995; Wu 2004). In particular, we examine four demonstrative pronouns in English, i.e. this, that, these and those, and their Chinese counterparts, zhe ‘this’, na ‘that’, zhe-xie ‘this-plural’, and na-xie ‘that-plural’. (We investigate exclusively the referential, demonstrative function of these forms , so excluding other grammatical uses of the same forms, such as discourse markers (for zhe and na), relative pronouns and complementizers (for that)).

Links

EE2.3.30.0037, research and development project

Name: Zaměstnáním nejlepších mladých vědců k rozvoji mezinárodní spolupráce

Citovat

LU, Wei-lun, Arie VERHAGEN and I-wen SU. A Multiple-Parallel-Text Approach for Viewpoint Research Across Languages: The Case of Demonstratives in English and Chinese. In Szilvia Csabi. Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 131-157. 1. ISBN 978-0-19-045774-7.

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LU, Wei-lun, Arie VERHAGEN and I-wen SU. A Multiple-Parallel-Text Approach for Viewpoint Research Across Languages: The Case of Demonstratives in English and Chinese. In Szilvia Csabi. \textit{Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics}. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, p.~131-157. 1. ISBN~978-0-19-045774-7.

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