Text, Context, Concepts

✍ Scribed by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Series: Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP]; 4
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The common aim of the contributions to this volume is to shed light on the communication of conceptual structures. The papers investigate how speakers rely on the same cognitive dispositions in three different areas of transfer: in the lexicalization of metonymies and metaphors; in intercultural communication; and in expert-lay communication. 

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1 Lexical transfer
Discourse and lexicalization
Communicative transfer of metonymic reference
On the mixing of conceptual metaphors
Classifiers, metonymies, and genericity: A study of Vietnamese
Comparing apples and pears: Latent Semantic Analysis
2 Transfer between languages
Morning, noon and night: Denotational incongruencies between English and German
Marked communication and cultural knowledge in lexis
Integrating translation theory and translation practice
Form symbolism across languages: Danish, Slovene, and Japanese
3 Transfer between functional varieties
Metaphors in expert and common-sense reasoning
Accurate fuzziness as constructive reduction in communication
The misreporting of science: The debate about the Antarctic ozone hole
Levels of abstraction in specialist concepts as a translation problem
Index