Comparative Stylistics of Welsh and English
Author | : Steve Morris |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2018-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781786832566 |
ISBN-13 | : 1786832569 |
Rating | : 4/5 (569 Downloads) |
Download or read book Comparative Stylistics of Welsh and English written by Steve Morris and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobiographies from the late nineteenth century up to the early twenty-first century. Many of the original Welsh texts contain stylistic features which, in a context of intense bilingualism with English, benefit from the deliberate discussion and analysis in this volume. However, the work is intentionally descriptive rather than prescriptive, laying out patterns that are observed in the corpus, and making them available to Welsh writers and translators to adopt if or as required. As similarly the classic work in the field by Vinay and Darbelnet, this book examines its topics through the lens of translation techniques such as transposition, modulation and adaptation.