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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 105, 2021
International Research-to-Practice Conference for Translators, Young Scholars and Students “Translation Industry: Theory in Action” (TITA 2020)
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| Article Number | 03006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 14 | |
| Section | Specialised Translation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202110503006 | |
| Published online | 12 May 2021 | |
Constructionist basis of composing and translating political speeches: A case study of President Trump’s inaugural address
Nizhyn Gogol State University, Nizhyn, Ukraine
* Corresponding author: nataliia.talavira@ndu.edu.ua
Application of the principles and tenets of cognitive linguistics to translation studies rests on the assumption that both of them employ the same meaning process while working with a text. Procedures implemented to translate the inaugural address of American President Trump have been regarded from the point of view of Construction Grammar. The construction is viewed as the main translation unit representing source linguistic material below the level of the text. The paper singles out from the translation of President Trump’s inaugural address equivalent constructions with identical form and meaning and non-equivalent pairings indicating transformations of structure or semantics in the original constructions. Syntactical modifications include the change of word order, grammar tenses or omission of construction component, while lexical transformations result in generalization, carried out by words with more abstract meaning than those in the source construction; simplification, representing separate objects or features from the array of denoted in the source pairing; and specification accentuating and detailing particular entities.
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