Translator awareness of semantic prosodies

Target

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-221

  Dam Jensen, Helle ^a   Zethsen, Karen Korning ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Connotation; Corpus analysis; Equivalence; Extended lexical units; Semantic preference; Semantic profiles; Semantic prosody; Synonymy; Translator awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349084554     PISSN: 09241884     EISSN: 15699986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/target.20.2.02dam     Document Type: Article

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