Identity in Discourse: The Translation of Article-Headlines inNational Geographic

• Authors: Maria Antoniou
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Analysing a corpus of article-headlines selected from forty issues of National Geographic in its French electronic version contrasted to its Greek one, this paper examines the constrains (cognitive, cultural and social) observed in both versions in terms of characteristics of identity and of politeness. Findings demonstrate that cross-cultural differences emerge along with linguistics parameters and that translators attend target group’s enactment of pragmatic features. The degree of the enunciator’s involvement in his/her utterance varies in both versions, process that implies a differentiation in the preferences/characteristics of the specific audiences; characteristics to which both of the working languages seem to stay attached, reflecting a general attitude of each linguistic community.

Keywords

EN

translation; contrastive analysis; French; Modern Greek; identity; politeness

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Journal: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 181-199

Dates

published

2016-03-17

received

2015-09-07

revised

2015-10-07

accepted

2015-12-28

online

2016-03-17

Contributors

author

Maria Antoniou

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of French Language and Literature, Panepistimioupoli, 157 84 Ilissia, Athens, Greece

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lpp-2015-0010