title: Literal translation in the light of the gravitational pull hypothesis: The case of sentence-initial indefinite noun phrases in singular in Norwegian-to-German and German-to-Norwegian translation
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metadata.value: Data-Bukowska, Ewa
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metadata.value: 2021-08-17T17:59:32Z
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metadata.value: 2021-08-17T17:59:32Z
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metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Data-Bukowska E. Literal translation in the light of the gravitational pull hypothesis: The case of sentence-initial indefinite noun phrases in singular in Norwegian-to-German and German-to-Norwegian translation. Scandinavian Philology, 2021, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 5–29.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2021.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32755
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metadata.value: The present article reports on a study of renditions of sentence-initial indefinite
  noun phrases (NPs) in singular in Norwegian-to-German and German-to-Norwegian
  parallel corpus data. It briefly describes the correspondences to such NPs and the translation-
  induced changes that are made in the structure of the sentences including the
  phrase. In particular, however, the study focuses on fully congruent correspondences
  to singular sentence-initial indefinite NPs, i. e., the instances in which the structure is
  formally copied in translational renditions. Finding out to what extent such sentence
  initials are preserved in translation allows us to verify the hypothesis about literal translation
  that pertains to a potential (yet somehow forgotten) translation universal. By referring
  the conducted study to the framework of the current version of the gravitational
  pull hypothesis by Sandra Halverson, it becomes possible to position the phenomenon
  of literal translation in the context of the latest research into bilingual cognition and
  to find common ground where more traditional contrastive linguistics and translation
  studies may meet. The analysis generally supports the literal translation hypothesis as
  the NPs under investigation (classified as highly salient linguistic structures) have been
  translated into German and Norwegian literally in over 70 %. Thus, the gravitational pull of the source text structures on the target language is of similar strength. On the
  other hand, it has been observed that Norwegian is more resistant to using sentence-initial
  indefinite NPs than German, or that German applies this way of content construal
  more willingly. In a broader perspective, the research results shed new light on the extent
  to which the linguistic patterns of the use of the indefinite article in a real text production
  are similar and entrenched in a bilingual’s Norwegian/German representation.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 19; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: literal translation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gravitational pull hypothesis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: translation universals
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: correspondence
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: indefinite article
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Literal translation in the light of the gravitational pull hypothesis: The case of sentence-initial indefinite noun phrases in singular in Norwegian-to-German and German-to-Norwegian translation
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metadata.value: Article
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