Semantics for Translation Students by Almanna, Ali -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright About the author(s)/editor(s) About the book This eBook can be cited Contents Preface

The key features of the book

Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration

Vowels

List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 : Definitions

Key terms 1.1 Linguistics and linguists

1.1.1 Linguistics 1.1.2 Linguist

1.2 Formal linguistics

1.2.1 Phonetics 1.2.2 Phonology 1.2.3 Morphology 1.2.4 Syntax 1.2.5 Semantics

1.3 Sociolinguistics

1.3.1 Language variation 1.3.2 Language and social interaction

1.4 Psycholinguistics

1.4.1 Language acquisition 1.4.2 Verbal processing

1.5 Applied linguistics Further reading Questions

Chapter 2 : Approaches to Word Meaning

Key terms 2.1 Semantic fields 2.2 Formal approaches

2.2.1 Componential analysis 2.2.2 Meaning postulates

2.3 Frame semantics

2.3.1 Frames 2.3.2 Scripts 2.3.3 Prototype

Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 3 : Morphology

Key terms 3.1 Grammar 3.2 Morphology 3.3 Causativity and transitivity

3.3.1 Causativity 3.3.2 Transitivity

Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 4 : Affixation

Key terms 4.1 Affixation 4.2 Changes associated with affixation 4.3 Suffixes and prefixes in English 4.4 Polysemous prefixes and suffixes 4.5 Homonymous prefixes and suffixes 4.6 Chameleon prefixes 4.7 Translating English suffixes and prefixes Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 5 : Tense and Aspect

Key terms 5.1 Tenses versus aspects

5.1.1 Simple aspect 5.1.2 Progressive aspect 5.1.3 Perfect aspect versus perfect progressive aspect

5.2 Translating tenses and aspects Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 6 : Modality

Key terms 6.1 Modality 6.2 Types of modality

6.2.1 Deontic modality 6.2.2 Epistemic modality

6.3 Translating modality 6.4 Modality: Different functions

6.4.1 Obligation and necessity 6.4.2 Lack of necessity and prohibition 6.4.3 Advisability, opinion, and expectation 6.4.4 Lost opportunities 6.4.5 Possibility/likelihood 6.4.6 Ability, lack of ability, and (not) giving permission 6.4.7 Futurity 6.4.8 Polite request 6.4.9 Preference

Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 7 : Lexical Semantics

Key terms 7.1 Reference versus sense 7.2 Synonymy 7.3 Antonymy 7.4 Polysemy 7.5 Homonymy 7.6 Homophones 7.7 Lexical relations and translation Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 8 : Semantic Roles

Key terms 8.1 Semantic roles 8.2 Types of semantic roles 8.3 Semantic roles and translation Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 9 : Semantic Principles

Key terms 9.1 Semantic principles 9.2 The open choice principle 9.3 The idiom principle 9.4 Idioms versus collocations 9.5 Phrasal verbs

9.5.1 Literal phrasal verbs 9.5.2 Aspectual phrasal verbs 9.5.3 Idiomatic phrasal verbs 9.5.4 Polysemous phrasal verbs

Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 10 : Levels of Meaning

Key terms 10.1 Denotation versus connotation 10.2 Connotation: Different overtones

10.2.1 Attitudinal meaning 10.2.2 Associative meaning 10.2.3 Affective meaning 10.2.4 Allusive meaning 10.2.5 Collocative meaning 10.2.6 Reflected meaning 10.2.7 Stylistic meaning

10.3 Semiotics 10.4 Paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 11 : Pragmatics

Key terms 11.1 Pragmatics: Definition 11.2 Speech acts 11.3 Implicature and the cooperative principle Further reading Questions Exercises

Chapter 12 : Annotating Semantic Issues

12.1 Introduction 12.2 Translation 12.3 Annotation

Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Exercise 10 Exercise 11 Exercise 12 Exercise 13

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