Anna Espunya
Biographic Data
| ID | 5946468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Espunya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Espunya |
| SIGNATURE | ESPUNYA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8052-1727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations
In Jane Austen’s novels conversation provides internal evidence of the nature of characters, both moral and social (Morini, 2009). Among the interplay of speech presentation forms (Bray, 2018; Page, 1972), Narrative Report of Speech Acts (Leech and Short, 2007) is still underresearched (Busse, 2020) as a characterisation resource. Research on speech reports in inquit formulae has focused on illocutionary features (Austin, 1962; Searle and Vanderv…
Reduced abstractness in Spanish-English translation
This study proposes an empirical methodology to test the hypothesis that translation from Spanish into English results in reduced abstractness. The semantic area focused upon is the attribution of properties to specific entities by means of abstract nouns. Two levels of abstractness, conceptual and grammatical, are considered. Conceptual abstractness is linked to the referential content of the nouns, while grammatical abstractness involves the re…
Contrastive and translational issues in rendering the English progressive form into Spanish and Catalan
This is a study on the formal correspondences for the English progressive in translations from English to Spanish and Catalan, with a special focus on the choice between simple and progressive forms. Its methodological approach includes the participation of informants both as translators and as evaluators of published translations. The paper discusses both the language-internal and task-related factors that play a role in the choice of verb forms
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Contrastive and translational issues in rendering the English progressive form into Spanish and Catalan
This is a study on the formal correspondences for the English progressive in translations from English to Spanish and Catalan, with a special focus on the choice between simple and progressive forms. Its methodological approach includes the participation of informants both as translators and as evaluators of published translations. The paper discusses both the language-internal and task-related factors that play a role in the choice of verb forms
Reduced abstractness in Spanish-English translation
This study proposes an empirical methodology to test the hypothesis that translation from Spanish into English results in reduced abstractness. The semantic area focused upon is the attribution of properties to specific entities by means of abstract nouns. Two levels of abstractness, conceptual and grammatical, are considered. Conceptual abstractness is linked to the referential content of the nouns, while grammatical abstractness involves the re…
Narrative Report of Speech Acts as characterization resource in Mansfield Park and its Spanish and German translations
In Jane Austen’s novels conversation provides internal evidence of the nature of characters, both moral and social (Morini, 2009). Among the interplay of speech presentation forms (Bray, 2018; Page, 1972), Narrative Report of Speech Acts (Leech and Short, 2007) is still underresearched (Busse, 2020) as a characterisation resource. Research on speech reports in inquit formulae has focused on illocutionary features (Austin, 1962; Searle and Vanderv…
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