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Neologisms in the media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in the context of information warfare 信息战背景下媒体对俄乌战争报道中的新名词

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.43.33284

Natalie Kramar

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Conceptual metaphors in Volodymyr Zelensky’s political discourse 沃洛德梅尔-泽连斯基政治话语中的概念隐喻

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.43.35264

Vilma Linkevičiūtė

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Paradoxical inferences, biconditional interpretation, and exclusivity 矛盾推论、双条件解释和排他性

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.43.32821

Miguel López‐Astorga

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How much Romanian does Google Translate know? Google 翻译懂多少罗马尼亚语？

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.43.35154

L. Pungă, Ionela Manda, Mădălina Chitez

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Text construction through patterns of signalling nouns: Evidence from the Discussion-Conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles 通过信号名词模式构建文本：来自应用语言学研究文章讨论-结论部分的证据

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.43.34785

Thi Ngoc Phuong Le

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A cross-linguistic study of the discourse functions of antonymy in Albanian and English 阿尔巴尼亚语和英语中反义词话语功能的跨语言研究

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.43.35322

Ekaterina Strati, Ergys Bezhani

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Transferring implied values of the Latvian source text diminutives into English: Piloting translation guidelines with novice translators 将拉脱维亚语源语小句的隐含值转换为英语：与新手译者一起试行翻译指南

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.42.33098

Zane Veidenberga

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Linguistic scenery in Latvian botany textbooks (1880s–1940s): Stable and varying features 拉脱维亚植物学教科书中的语言风景（19世纪80年代至40年代）：稳定而多变的特征

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.42.33104

Jānis Veckrācis

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Besimokančiųjų vertimo studentų tekstynas MUST-LT: kolokacijų vertimo atvejo analizė 学生翻译教材《MUST-LT》：群体翻译案例分析

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.42.33269

Jurgita Vaičenonienė

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The rise of COVID-19 terms in English and Romanian. Translation challenges 新冠肺炎英语和罗马尼亚语术语的兴起。翻译挑战

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.5755/j01.sal.1.42.33112

Daria Protopopescu

{"title":"The rise of COVID-19 terms in English and Romanian. Translation challenges","authors":"Daria Protopopescu","doi":"10.5755/j01.sal.1.42.33112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.1.42.33112","url":null,"abstract":"Following the COVID-19 pandemic, linguists and terminologists in particular are confronted with a lot of challenges in translating new terminology. This has to do with a mass communication that is largely centred around English. The sometimes-sudden creation of new terms as a response to the new realities is one of the reasons behind these challenges. So, it is only fitting to research these attempts to offer equivalents for these newly-coined English terms posing problems to Romanian translators. This article aims to investigate in more detail the terminology related to the coronavirus pandemic, as a means to contributing to the rise of valid Romanian versions of English terminology specific for the coronavirus pandemic, keeping in mind that terms are “dynamically equivalent”. Our reasoning behind the investigation of the coronavirus-related vocabulary and its translation from English into Romanian (mainly via Google Translate) is to look into the issue of poverty of linguistic resources employed to adequately translate these terms. An analysis of the coronavirus pandemic-related terminology shows that Romanian equivalents for the newly-coined English terms is either missing of awkward sounding. We are going to investigate the several reasons for this. Our belief is that the main reason has to do with the fact that most of the available information about COVID-19, irrespective of its medium (blogs, social media content, articles), is in English. If we are to compare this to what happens in case of machine translation use, then the outcome is in certain cases quite infelicitous.","PeriodicalId":37822,"journal":{"name":"Studies About Languages","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47811183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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