An Exploratory Analysis of TED Talks in English and Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish Translations

Abstract This paper contributes to the question of how discourse relations are realised in TED talks. Drawing on an annotated, multilingual corpus talk transcripts, we examine English and Lithuanian, Portuguese Turkish translations by concentrating three aspects: degree explicitness relations, extent which explicit implicit encoded inter- or intra-sententially, whether top-level relation senses employed differ target languages. The study shows that while languages from first two dimensions, they do not display considerable differences third dimension. thus reveals variations realisation translated transcripts a spoken genre offers some methodological insights for dealing with issues surrounding relations.