Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre

Hwang, Shin Ja J.; Merrifield, William R.

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“…Turning again to the third research question, various authors have noted that the addition of connectives can be considered an optional strategy (Baumgarten, Meyer, and Ôzçetin 2008;Klaudy 1998). Without them, an interpreter's target text may be grammatically complete or accurate, but the target language audience may find the language stilted or awkward (Jones 1992).…”

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Interpretation and the explicitation process

McDermid,

Humphrey,

Harding

2023

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Historically, most research has focused on the ability of sign language interpreters towork from English as a source text into American Sign Language (ASL) as a target text.Little has been done on their ability to work from ASL into spoken English. To addressthat gap, a pilot study was done to examine the English target texts of 22 interpreterswho were asked to simultaneously interpret 4 short ASL monologues. The focus of thispilotwas on the incorporation of the articles, “a/an” and “the” and the coordinating conjunctions,“for,” “and,” “nor,” “but,” “or,” “yet,” and “so” in the participants’ English targettexts. The findings indicate that the interpreters did include these even when anequivalent structure was not produced as a manual, lexical item by the native signers intheir ASL stories. Their adaptations served to potentially strengthen the English targettexts by possibly reducing the cognitive load needed to comprehend the utterances byan English-speaking audience, and indicate that decisionswere made by the interpretersto include these structures.

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Interpretation and the explicitation process

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Harding

2023

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Discourse and grammaticalization of contrastive markers in Taiwanese Southern Min: A corpus-based study

Chang

2008

Journal of Pragmatics

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Person shift at narrative peak

Margetts¹

2015

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Narrators like to highlight important events in their stories. In some languages, they may shift to first- or second-person pronouns to refer to third-person referents in order to do so. Such pronoun shifts show functional parallels with tense shifts like the historical present, as both highlight events through shifts in deictic categories. Longacre (1983:138–39) discusses the parallels between person and tense shifts in his account of narrative peak, that is, the formal marking of important narrative events. Labov (1972) analyzes similar strategies as internal evaluations. Person shifts constitute a phenomenon of the discourse-syntax interface and present a clear case of discourse structure influencing grammar. Both person shifts themselves and their motivation in narrative structure have been little investigated. The article reviews person shifts in a number of languages reported in the literature and analyzes in detail the characteristics of this discourse strategy in Saliba-Logea, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. The study contributes to the growing body of research on pronouns and person markers, and on referring expressions more generally, by adding a new angle of investigation. Previous studies have tended to focus on the morphosyntactic choices of referring expressions and their motivations, that is, on the choices between lexical nouns, free vs. bound pronouns, and so forth. The present study focuses on the paradigmatic choices between different person forms within one and the same morphosyntactic expression type. In doing so it offers a new perspective on pronoun choice and the factors influencing it crosslinguistically. While some types of person shift appear to be rare, overall, the strategy of person shift at narrative peak seems to constitute a solid crosslinguistic phenomenon.

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Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre

Cited by 4 publications

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Interpretation and the explicitation process

Interpretation and the explicitation process

Discourse and grammaticalization of contrastive markers in Taiwanese Southern Min: A corpus-based study

Person shift at narrative peak

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