Contesting the Culture Order: Contrastive Pragmatics in Action

A New Approach to Contrastive Topic: Partition Semantics and Pragmatics

The purpose of the current work is to propose a more comprehensive approach to Contrastive Topic (henceforth, CT) than the existing ones. In the literature, there have been two approaches to CT proposed: one is to take CT as an information-structural discourse-regulating notion on a par with focus and the other is to analyze CT as an focus-sensitive operator with its inherent semantic and pragm...

Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility

Contesting Stigma: On Goffman's Assumptions of Normative Order

strategies applied in translation of culture-specific items in translation of the i. r. i. constitution &the civil code (from persian into english(

این تحقیق به بررسی استراتژیهای بکاررفته توسط مترجمین مختلف در ترجمه واژه های فرهنگی خاص در ترجمه فارسی به انگلیسی قانون مدنی و قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران میپردازد.این تحقیق بر اساس نظریه پیتر نیومارک صرت گرفته است. در این تحفیق واژه های فرهنگی خاص اقتباس شده و پس از مقایسه با متن مبدا به بررسی انها پرداخته می شود.در قسمت ضمائم تحقیق واژه نامه ای برای اشنایی خوانندگان با لغات و اصطلاحات حقو...

Contrastive focus affects word order in Korean sentence production

This paper presents results of a sentence production experiment in Korean that investigated speakers’ preferences in word order. Despite the existence of so-called “canonical” order for certain types of sentences, Korean exhibits flexible linear word orders that maintain constant grammatical relations (Sohn, 1999). For example, a dative sentence describing an object transfer can have various wo...