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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103836

Yaoyao Chen , Svenja Adolphs , Dawn Knight

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Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic 德语和冰岛语中同义的 Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat 动词的主语和参数结构

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103833

Joren Somers , Gard B. Jenset , Jóhanna Barðdal

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Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics 令人震惊的预测：宏观经济学中[X-冲击]建筑综合体的兴起

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103829

Todd Oakley , Vera Tobin , Adrian Vietorisz , Noah Slobodin , Katherine Gordon

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Dependencies between adverbs and sentence-final particles: A case of confirmative and non-confirmative modals in Cantonese 副词与句末语气词之间的依存关系：粤语中确认情态和非确认情态的案例

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103830

Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses 汉语相对从句中的无间隙性

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103828

Chen Li , Seung-Man Kang

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A corpus-driven comparative analysis of AI in academic discourse: Investigating ChatGPT-generated academic texts in social sciences 对学术话语中的人工智能进行语料库驱动的比较分析：调查由 ChatGPT 生成的社会科学学术文本

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103838

Giordano Tudino, Yan Qin

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A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers 更好还是更差的交流者？比较人工翻译和机器翻译在源语言中的跨语域效果

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103834

Jia Li , Xianyao Hu

{"title":"A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers","authors":"Jia Li , Xianyao Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides a novel perspective on the distinction between human and machine translation by comparing the shining-through effect in English translations from Chinese across four different registers based on four comparable balanced corpora. By applying two multivariate techniques to multiple lexical, cohesive and syntactic features, this study identifies the following. (i) The shining-through effect is observable in human- and machine-translated English from Chinese; however, it is relatively limited. (ii) Machine translation exhibits a more distinct and persistent tendency towards shining through across different registers. (iii) The shining-through effect is register-dependent, with a stronger presence in general and academic texts than in journalistic and fictional translated texts. These findings confirm shining through as a potential translation universal in both human and machine translated texts. Furthermore, the results suggest that human translators are more sensitive to the social norms in different registers, further supporting the notion that human translators are more alert to contextual and communicative constraints in translation. The observed distinction offers valuable insights for translation educators in restructuring the curriculum for the human–machine collaborative translation model by considering translation norms, register constraints and interpersonal and intercultural factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"312 ","pages":"Article 103834"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142592997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors 建立一套识别名词化隐喻的原则体系

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103832

Wen Li , Bingjun Yang

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Retraction notice to “Spatiality and temporality: the fundamental difference between Chinese and English” [Lingua 251 (2021) 103011] 空间性与时间性：中英文的根本差异》撤稿通知 [Lingua 251 (2021) 103011]

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103839

Wenbin Wang , Xinmiao Liu

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Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study 研究文章摘要词汇密度的异时变化：基于语料库的研究