Übersetzungsäquivalente substantivierter Adjektivwörter vom Typ das Neue, das Schöne (neutrale Abstrakta) im Polnischen

Abstract

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Übersetzungsàquivalente substantivierter Adjektivwôrter vom Typ das Neue, das Schône (neutrale Abstrakta) im Polnischen A b s t r a c t . The article discusses the translation problem of adjectives converted into nouns such as das Neue, das Moderne. There are presented results of research based on the corpus of more than 400 entities and their translations from German into Polish. The analysis used tools of Cognitive Linguistics to catch most important semantic différences between équivalents. Five types of équivalents are the most frequently chosen but only 20 per cent solutions in Polish are adjectives converted into nouns.Therefore the supposition is that these formations can be the source of difficultés for translators.

Towards Application of Speech Act Theory to Opinion Mining

“…The translation of opinion reviews from Polish into English was conducted according to the methodology of searching for semantic equivalents (see Kubaszczyk, 2006Kubaszczyk, , 1999, rather than using direct translations. The application of this approach was possible due to the fact that the translator is also a linguist with experience in analysis of English opinion reviews for the purposes of data extraction.…”