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Information-structure strategies in English/Spanish translation

Author(s) -

Ángel L. JiménezFernández

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of english studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.115

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 1695-4300

pISSN - 1576-6357

DOI - 10.18172/jes.4195

Subject(s) - information structure , focus (optics) , computer science , linguistics , theme (computing) , point (geometry) , translation (biology) , information flow , natural language processing , language structure , artificial intelligence , world wide web , mathematics , philosophy , physics , geometry , biochemistry , chemistry , messenger rna , optics , gene

This paper discusses information structure-based strategies that could be used in translating from English to Spanish. It is widely observed that many problems arise in translation when establishing the theme/topic and providing the focus content in the target language, given the grammatical instruments available in the source language. It is extremely important to use similar discourse mechanisms to present the same message in exactly the same terms from an information-structure point of view. This means that the syntactic configuration may be different in the source and target texts. I focus on three information structure phenomena, namely Passive, Topic Fronting and Negative Preposing in the two languages, to analyse the preservation of the discourse flow in various translations for the optimal use of the relevant constructions.

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