Chapter 8. The discourse markers well and so and their equivalents in the Portuguese and Turkish subparts of the TED-MDB corpus
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Amália Mendes
Abstract
The present research describes how the PDTB style of discourse annotation has been applied to transcribed TED Talks in the TED-MDB corpus, which include multifunctional elements such as well and so. The occurrence of these two markers is analyzed in English in comparison to the way they are conveyed in Portuguese and Turkish translations of TED-MDB. Their presence in discourse relations, as well as in question-response pairs found in TED Talks, are investigated. The implicitation of well and so in translation is shown to be related to their function in the context. Results also point to differences in the target languages regarding implicitation, especially when the discourse marker doesn’t fulfil a connective function.
Abstract
The present research describes how the PDTB style of discourse annotation has been applied to transcribed TED Talks in the TED-MDB corpus, which include multifunctional elements such as well and so. The occurrence of these two markers is analyzed in English in comparison to the way they are conveyed in Portuguese and Turkish translations of TED-MDB. Their presence in discourse relations, as well as in question-response pairs found in TED Talks, are investigated. The implicitation of well and so in translation is shown to be related to their function in the context. Results also point to differences in the target languages regarding implicitation, especially when the discourse marker doesn’t fulfil a connective function.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Corpus resources and tools 1
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Part I. Corpus resources and tools
- Chapter 1. Now what ? 23
- Chapter 2. ZHEN 49
- Chapter 3. Word alignment in a parallel corpus of Old English prose 75
- Chapter 4. Semantic textual similarity based on deep learning 101
- Chapter 5. TAligner 3.0 125
- Chapter 6. Developing a corpus-informed tool for Spanish professionals writing specialised texts in English 147
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Part II. Corpus-based studies and explorations
- Chapter 7. English and Spanish discourse markers in translation 177
- Chapter 8. The discourse markers well and so and their equivalents in the Portuguese and Turkish subparts of the TED-MDB corpus 209
- Chapter 9. Variation of evidential values in discourse domains 233
- Chapter 10. The translation for dubbing of Westerns in Spain 257
- Chapter 11. Generic analysis of mobile application reviews in English and Spanish 283
- Chapter 12. Exploring variation in translation with probabilistic language models 307
- Chapter 13. Binomial adverbs in Germanic and Romance Languages 325
- Index 343
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Corpus resources and tools 1
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Part I. Corpus resources and tools
- Chapter 1. Now what ? 23
- Chapter 2. ZHEN 49
- Chapter 3. Word alignment in a parallel corpus of Old English prose 75
- Chapter 4. Semantic textual similarity based on deep learning 101
- Chapter 5. TAligner 3.0 125
- Chapter 6. Developing a corpus-informed tool for Spanish professionals writing specialised texts in English 147
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Part II. Corpus-based studies and explorations
- Chapter 7. English and Spanish discourse markers in translation 177
- Chapter 8. The discourse markers well and so and their equivalents in the Portuguese and Turkish subparts of the TED-MDB corpus 209
- Chapter 9. Variation of evidential values in discourse domains 233
- Chapter 10. The translation for dubbing of Westerns in Spain 257
- Chapter 11. Generic analysis of mobile application reviews in English and Spanish 283
- Chapter 12. Exploring variation in translation with probabilistic language models 307
- Chapter 13. Binomial adverbs in Germanic and Romance Languages 325
- Index 343
