Pragmatics at Work Kartoniert (TB)

This volume is a collection of eight articles on the general topic of translation. The common element running through them all is the analysis of samples of tourist literature and their translations from a pragmatic point of view. The languages concerned are mainly English and Spanish but examples of German and French texts are also included. The theoretical approaches are multifaceted. Relevance theory systemic-functional linguistics and discourse analysis are some of the theoretical standpoints taken as a background. The book covers phenomena as varied as translation quality assessment a udience design and perlocutionary effects dealing also with more specific features like thematic structure inference and propositional meaning discourse markers and grammatical metaphor in order to provide a wide range of analyses for the specialised reader.