In this paper, we explore the potential of a corpus approach to study translated cohesion. We use key words as starting points for identifying cohesive networks in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and discuss how these networks contribute to the construction of literary meanings in the text. We focus on the role of repetition as a key element in establishing cohesive networks between lexical items. We specifically discuss the implications of our method for the analysis of cohesion in translated texts. A comparison of Lovecraft’s original novel and a translation into Italian provides us with a nuanced understanding of the complex nature of cohesive networks. Finally, we discuss the broader issue of applying models and methods from corpus linguistics to corpus stylistic analysis.
{"title":"Key words and translated cohesion in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and one of its Italian translations","authors":"Lorenzo Mastropierro, Michaela Mahlberg","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.1.05MAS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.1.05MAS","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we explore the potential of a corpus approach to study translated cohesion. We use key words as starting points for identifying cohesive networks in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and discuss how these networks contribute to the construction of literary meanings in the text. We focus on the role of repetition as a key element in establishing cohesive networks between lexical items. We specifically discuss the implications of our method for the analysis of cohesion in translated texts. A comparison of Lovecraft’s original novel and a translation into Italian provides us with a nuanced understanding of the complex nature of cohesive networks. Finally, we discuss the broader issue of applying models and methods from corpus linguistics to corpus stylistic analysis.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"78-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.1.05MAS","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59425089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study investigates the usage patterns of four near-synonymous mental predicates ( believe , guess , suppose and think ) across three Asian ESL (English as a Second Language) varieties as well as British and American Englishes. Using two multivariate techniques, multiple correspondence analysis and classification and regression tree analysis, the study shows the benefits of exploring cross-varietal variation through the lens of lexicalization patterns. The study also demonstrates that to make sense of semantic patterns it is crucial to account for extra-linguistic factors such as genre, as different ESL writers structure the meaning of believe , guess , suppose and think differently depending on their type of writing. Ultimately, in the broader context of the emancipation of ESL varieties, the results raise important questions about the developmental process of Asian Englishes and the place that semantic structure holds in this endeavor.
{"title":"Structuring subjectivity in Asian Englishes: Multivariate approaches to mental predicates across genres and functional uses","authors":"Sandra C. Deshors","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.1.07DES","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.1.07DES","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the usage patterns of four near-synonymous mental predicates ( believe , guess , suppose and think ) across three Asian ESL (English as a Second Language) varieties as well as British and American Englishes. Using two multivariate techniques, multiple correspondence analysis and classification and regression tree analysis, the study shows the benefits of exploring cross-varietal variation through the lens of lexicalization patterns. The study also demonstrates that to make sense of semantic patterns it is crucial to account for extra-linguistic factors such as genre, as different ESL writers structure the meaning of believe , guess , suppose and think differently depending on their type of writing. Ultimately, in the broader context of the emancipation of ESL varieties, the results raise important questions about the developmental process of Asian Englishes and the place that semantic structure holds in this endeavor.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"132-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.1.07DES","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59425388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This introduction to the special issue “Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse” first briefly reviews Kristin Davidse’s rich and varied trajectory in functional and cognitive linguistics, highlighting in particular the links between the domains represented by the contributions to the issue and the doctoral research she has supervised over the years. The central questions surrounding grammar (especially interpersonal grammar), usage and discourse (including literary discourse) which inform the different contributions are subsequently discussed, and a concluding section offers a number of celebratory and grateful salutes.
{"title":"Favourite puzzles: Revisiting categories in grammar, usage and discourse from functional perspectives","authors":"Lieven Vandelanotte","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.2.01VAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.2.01VAN","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction to the special issue “Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse” first briefly reviews Kristin Davidse’s rich and varied trajectory in functional and cognitive linguistics, highlighting in particular the links between the domains represented by the contributions to the issue and the doctoral research she has supervised over the years. The central questions surrounding grammar (especially interpersonal grammar), usage and discourse (including literary discourse) which inform the different contributions are subsequently discussed, and a concluding section offers a number of celebratory and grateful salutes.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"187-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.2.01VAN","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59425410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyzes the “when” meme, a popular internet meme, which prototypically juxtaposes a when clause with an ostensibly unrelated image. Despite the initial incongruity, I contend this image prompts selective mapping between verbal and visual elements to produce a multimodal simile. First, I attempt to define and more clearly distinguish simile from metaphor. Second, I show how this multimodal simile exhibits unique viewpoint mapping by prompting audiences to subsume viewpoints that are both unfamiliar and bizarre. Third, I connect the like construction in simile with the like reported speech marker to show how both concepts are intimately related. Ultimately, the paper seeks to contribute to studies of simile by bolstering its ties with multimodality, blending, metonymy, viewpoint, and embodiment.
{"title":"Multimodal simile: The “when” meme in social media discourse","authors":"Adrian Lou","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.1.06LOU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.1.06LOU","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the “when” meme, a popular internet meme, which prototypically juxtaposes a when clause with an ostensibly unrelated image. Despite the initial incongruity, I contend this image prompts selective mapping between verbal and visual elements to produce a multimodal simile. First, I attempt to define and more clearly distinguish simile from metaphor. Second, I show how this multimodal simile exhibits unique viewpoint mapping by prompting audiences to subsume viewpoints that are both unfamiliar and bizarre. Third, I connect the like construction in simile with the like reported speech marker to show how both concepts are intimately related. Ultimately, the paper seeks to contribute to studies of simile by bolstering its ties with multimodality, blending, metonymy, viewpoint, and embodiment.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"106-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.1.06LOU","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59425333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While critics commenting on To the Lighthouse usually focus on Mrs Ramsay, Lily and gender questions, this article traces the ways in which the mother-son relationship between Mrs Ramsay and James reflect the processes Christopher Bollas distinguishes as a child learns to use objects to develop his own personal idiom. These processes can be further nuanced by using Lacan’s three registers of the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic, which, stressing the rhythmical, iconic and verbal aspects of language respectively, each yield distinct object uses. First, James learns to deal with affects, then with emotions and finally with values, thus developing a grammar of interiority. This leads him to his final epiphany of the Lighthouse, linchpin of the three registers, which reveals his idea of self, reconciling paternal and maternal aspects of his internal objects.
{"title":"Towards a new grammar of interiority: James Ramsay’s circuitous way To the Lighthouse","authors":"H. Schwall","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.2.07SCH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.2.07SCH","url":null,"abstract":"While critics commenting on To the Lighthouse usually focus on Mrs Ramsay, Lily and gender questions, this article traces the ways in which the mother-son relationship between Mrs Ramsay and James reflect the processes Christopher Bollas distinguishes as a child learns to use objects to develop his own personal idiom. These processes can be further nuanced by using Lacan’s three registers of the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic, which, stressing the rhythmical, iconic and verbal aspects of language respectively, each yield distinct object uses. First, James learns to deal with affects, then with emotions and finally with values, thus developing a grammar of interiority. This leads him to his final epiphany of the Lighthouse, linchpin of the three registers, which reveals his idea of self, reconciling paternal and maternal aspects of his internal objects.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"17 1","pages":"323-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.2.07SCH","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59425707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper analyses the influence of John Madden’s biopic Shakespeare in Love (GB/USA, 1998) on Moliere (FR, 2007) and Young Goethe in Love (GER, 2010) by having a closer look at the intertextual relationship between the films. For this, it considers external and internal connections, referring to intertexts for the promotion and marketing as well as the use of content-based conventions for biopics on writers, literary sources and anachronisms. The analysis reveals that, although the French and German films take Shakespeare in Love as a source of inspiration, they rewrite the approach and transform it for an individual representation of their national subjects. This double effect points to a different, alternative strategy for adapting the literary life of the canonical author.
{"title":"Travelling through the centuries: The intertextual relationship between Shakespeare in Love, Molière and Young Goethe in Love","authors":"Carolin Crespo Steinke","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.1.04STE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.1.04STE","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyses the influence of John Madden’s biopic Shakespeare in Love (GB/USA, 1998) on Moliere (FR, 2007) and Young Goethe in Love (GER, 2010) by having a closer look at the intertextual relationship between the films. For this, it considers external and internal connections, referring to intertexts for the promotion and marketing as well as the use of content-based conventions for biopics on writers, literary sources and anachronisms. The analysis reveals that, although the French and German films take Shakespeare in Love as a source of inspiration, they rewrite the approach and transform it for an individual representation of their national subjects. This double effect points to a different, alternative strategy for adapting the literary life of the canonical author.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"59-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.1.04STE","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59424677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gil-Salom & Soler-Monreal, eds. (2014). Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres","authors":"J. Chovanec","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.1.08CHO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.1.08CHO","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"165-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.1.08CHO","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59425078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 2015 Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, held at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and cosponsored by the Research Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings as well as the “Literature and Media Innovation” research project (BELSPO IAP7/01), was devoted to the theme of adaptation. As a traveling concept, pertaining to creative and critical repetition, adaptation provides a rewarding perspective and relevant operational logic in each of BAAHE’s subfields (English literature, theatre, cultural studies, linguistics, translation, and language teaching) allowing for theoretical and practical, methodological and interdisciplinary research, intertextual, generic, and genetic criticism. Presentations could focus on the product or the singular and repeated creative process, turning each adaptation of past sources into primary or residual material for subsequent creations in an ongoing practice. This also begs the question of the role of adaptation in the afterlife and institutionalization of art works and as constituents of cultural memory. Alternatively attention could be paid to the adaptation process’s interpretative function, from single or multiple author strategies and uncreative rewritings through the recipients’ stereoscopic or oscillating perception, to the authors’ and recipients’ shared need to mobilize their personal memory for adaptation to become a self-conscious practice. Adaptations can linger within the confines of genres, media, arts and disciplines but more often than not involve transactional, intersemiotic transcodings between them. Equally relevant research questions pertain to the evolving personal and cultural determinants of adaptations, their institutional contexts and discursive communities, depending on degrees of knowingness and appropriation, making for canons and countercanons or ideological reappropriations, covering a wide spectrum from feminist to postcolonial. These involve a politics as well as an ethics of adaptation, both receiving renewed urgency through the digital era’s ease of recombination, extending artistic creation into a generalized cultural practice both popular and professional, blurring the distinction between production and consumption.
{"title":"Introduction: Adaptation reconsidered","authors":"J. Callens","doi":"10.1075/etc.10.1.001int","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.10.1.001int","url":null,"abstract":"The 2015 Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, held at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and cosponsored by the Research Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings as well as the “Literature and Media Innovation” research project (BELSPO IAP7/01), was devoted to the theme of adaptation. As a traveling concept, pertaining to creative and critical repetition, adaptation provides a rewarding perspective and relevant operational logic in each of BAAHE’s subfields (English literature, theatre, cultural studies, linguistics, translation, and language teaching) allowing for theoretical and practical, methodological and interdisciplinary research, intertextual, generic, and genetic criticism. Presentations could focus on the product or the singular and repeated creative process, turning each adaptation of past sources into primary or residual material for subsequent creations in an ongoing practice. This also begs the question of the role of adaptation in the afterlife and institutionalization of art works and as constituents of cultural memory. Alternatively attention could be paid to the adaptation process’s interpretative function, from single or multiple author strategies and uncreative rewritings through the recipients’ stereoscopic or oscillating perception, to the authors’ and recipients’ shared need to mobilize their personal memory for adaptation to become a self-conscious practice. Adaptations can linger within the confines of genres, media, arts and disciplines but more often than not involve transactional, intersemiotic transcodings between them. Equally relevant research questions pertain to the evolving personal and cultural determinants of adaptations, their institutional contexts and discursive communities, depending on degrees of knowingness and appropriation, making for canons and countercanons or ideological reappropriations, covering a wide spectrum from feminist to postcolonial. These involve a politics as well as an ethics of adaptation, both receiving renewed urgency through the digital era’s ease of recombination, extending artistic creation into a generalized cultural practice both popular and professional, blurring the distinction between production and consumption.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"66 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/etc.10.1.001int","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59424846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grammar, usage and discourse: functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse","authors":"Lieven Vandelanotte, W. Praet, Lieselotte Brems","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"187-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59425351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Presuming that both travel and crime fiction can be described as traditionally ‘white’ genres, this article investigates how contemporary Black British authors appropriate these genres. Focusing on Mike Phillips’s A Shadow of Myself and Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists, the article examines how the two novels redeem and suspend the traditional racial and national coding of travel writing and crime fiction by rehabilitating black mixed-race characters. In both novels, moreover, the rethinking of traditional popular genres coincides with, and is partly enabled by, a transnational shift in focus from Britain to Europe. A closer look at the novels’ respective endings, finally, reveals how each conceptualises the relationship between Britain and Europe differently, and how this difference can be explained by the impact of genre.
{"title":"Rewriting ‘white’ genres in search of Afro-European identities: Travel and crime fiction by Bernardine Evaristo and Mike Phillips","authors":"Janine Hauthal","doi":"10.1075/ETC.10.1.03HAU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.10.1.03HAU","url":null,"abstract":"Presuming that both travel and crime fiction can be described as traditionally ‘white’ genres, this article investigates how contemporary Black British authors appropriate these genres. Focusing on Mike Phillips’s A Shadow of Myself and Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists, the article examines how the two novels redeem and suspend the traditional racial and national coding of travel writing and crime fiction by rehabilitating black mixed-race characters. In both novels, moreover, the rethinking of traditional popular genres coincides with, and is partly enabled by, a transnational shift in focus from Britain to Europe. A closer look at the novels’ respective endings, finally, reveals how each conceptualises the relationship between Britain and Europe differently, and how this difference can be explained by the impact of genre.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"10 1","pages":"37-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.10.1.03HAU","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59424532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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