Headline classes in journalistic Spanish. An exercise in register analysis

Steel, Brian

doi:10.1515/ibero-1971-0317

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“…General discussions of register variation, especially those with some claim to the construction of a theory or model, usually provide a taxonomic grid of several major dimensions or parameters, such as field, mode, participants, tenor, and so forth (e.g., Leech 1966, Gregory 1967, Halliday 1968, Ellis & Ure 1969. Some studies of register variation are content to label a particular register or set of registers (e.g., Steel 1971, Henzl 1974, Ferguson 1977. Many register analysts, including some of the authors cited, find these two approaches unsatisfactory.…”

Section: Locating the Registermentioning

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Sports announcer talk: Syntactic aspects of register variation

Ferguson¹

1983

Lang. Soc.

194

103

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The language of sportscasting is analyzed in terms of register variation. 1 First the register is "located" by successive approximations to a characterization of its occasions of use, then selected syntactic characteristics are identified: simplification (deletion of copula and sentence initial nominals), inversions, heavy modifiers, result expressions (for + noun, to + verb), routines (e.g., giving the "count"). Some of these are discussed in relation to possible communicative functions, but all are seen as register markers. Sports announcer talk (SAT) is described as a promising topic for comparative, historical, and acquisitional studies of register variation. (Register, mass media, performance; American English, Japanese.) 157

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Section: Locating the Registermentioning

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Sports announcer talk: Syntactic aspects of register variation

Ferguson¹

1983

Lang. Soc.

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103

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Pragmatics and semiotics: the relevance of addressee expectations in the translation of newspaper texts

Fernández¹

2001

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Newspaper and advertising texts have traditionally been 'difficult children' for translation studies to deal with, mainly for one thing: they seem to be systematically norm-flouting. In fact, in traditional approaches, they were customaríly quoted as typical examples of 'free translation', 'unfaithfulness' or, insome cases, outrightcreationof anewtext. Althoughitistruethatthese texts present certain translation peculiarities, this is by no means a random process of transfer where translators set their 'wild imagination' to work. Quite on the contrary, it is argued here that it is precisely these texts that demónstrate how systematically translators are capable of forecasting the average target recipient and of adapting the texts to reader expectations by fulfilling pragmatic and semiotic considerations in the process of transfer; these seem to be the two guiding parameters for the occurrence of 'translation incidences' in newspaper binomials. To prove this claim, we present the results obtained from a descriptive study carried out with a selection of semiotic and pragmatic factors on a corpus of newspaper texts publishedby The Guardian and their subsequent translations into Spanish, published by El Mundo.

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Headline classes in journalistic Spanish. An exercise in register analysis

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Sports announcer talk: Syntactic aspects of register variation

Sports announcer talk: Syntactic aspects of register variation

Pragmatics and semiotics: the relevance of addressee expectations in the translation of newspaper texts

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