Translation alignment and lexical correspondences

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Part I. Introduction
6. Recent trends in cross-linguistic lexical studies 3
7. Part II. Cross-Linguistic Equivalence
8. Two types of translation equivalence 51
9. Functionally complete units of meaning across English and Italian 73
10. Causative constructions in English and Swedish 97
11. Part III. Contrastive Lexical Semantics
12. Polysemy and disambiguation cues across languages 119
13. A cognitive approach to Up/Down metaphors in English and Shang/Xia metaphors in Chinese 151
14. From figures of speech to lexical units 175
15. Part IV. Corpus-based Bilingual Lexicography
16. The role of parallel corpora in translation and multilingual lexicography 189
17. Bilingual lexicography, overlapping polysemy, and corpus use 215
18. Computerised set expression dictionaries 231
19. Making a workable glossary out of a specialised corpus 249
20. Part V. Translation and Parallel Concordancing
21. Translation alignment and lexical correspondences 271
22. The use of electronic corpora and lexical frequency data in solving translation problems 291
23. Multiconcord 307
24. General index 327
25. Author index 333