The decline of damit in English-German translations. A diachronic perspective on source language interference  

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Becher, Viktor

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SKASE : Interpretation and Translation vol. 4 no. 1 (2009), page 3-24.
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This article reports on a diachronic study of the quantitative and qualitative use of the composite deictic damit ‘therewith’ in a corpus of English-German translations and comparable German texts (investigated time period: 1978–2002; genre of texts: popular science). It was found that the investigated translations and comparable texts have branched off in different directions, with the frequency of damit decreasing in the former and increasing in the latter. The results obtained from the study provide insight into current developments in the English and German genres of popular science and provide a diachronic perspective on source language interference in translation.

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