A Contrastive Study of Deontic Modality in Parallel Texts

Q1 Arts and Humanities

ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries Pub Date : 2021-12-29 DOI:10.4312/elope.18.2.31-49

O. Boginskaya

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This article is a contrastive study of deontic modal markers in three parallel texts. It analyses the modality system in the English, Russian and French texts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights accounting for the ambiguity of some English modal verbs in legal texts and the difficulty in rendering them into a different language. The research reveals modal markers used to express deontic permission, deontic obligation and deontic prohibition in the three parallel texts; semantic similarities and discrepancies between these modal markers; and translation strategies employed to render the English modal markers into Russian and French. The article responds to the need for a systematic analysis of deontic modal markers in English, Russian and French due to the semantic and syntactic differences among the German, Romance and Slavic languages. The article concludes that French and Russian have more in common than French and English or Russian and English in terms of the deontic modality.

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平行语篇道义情态的对比研究

本文对三个并列语篇中道义情态标记语进行了对比研究。分析了《世界人权宣言》英、俄、法文本中的情态系统，解释了法律文本中一些英语情态动词的歧义和翻译困难的原因。研究揭示了三个平行语篇中用于表达道义允许、道义义务和道义禁止的情态标记;情态标记的语义异同;以及将英语情态标记语翻译成俄语和法语的策略。由于德语、罗曼语和斯拉夫语在语义和句法上的差异，有必要对英语、俄语和法语的道义情态标记语进行系统的分析。文章认为，在道义情态方面，法语和俄语比法语和英语或俄语和英语有更多的共同点。

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ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.70

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16 weeks

期刊介绍： ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries (http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research articles, studies and essays that address issues of English language, literature, teaching and translation. The guest editors, Jason Blake and Michelle Gadpaille, warmly invite contributors to submit original research for a special issue of the journal in honour of Margaret Atwood’s 80th birthday. Papers are solicited that focus on Atwood’s 21st-century work (excluding film and television adaptations). Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: Experiments in short prose and cross-generic forms Eco-critical engagement in prose or fiction; Apocalyptic Atwood Reception across cultures, languages and generations; global Atwood Translation and stylistic studies of 21st century works Poetic legacy Interdisciplinary approaches Humour.